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No. 1 KU draws Peay, Des Moines

By Gary Bedore

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Strange bracket does KU no favors Two questions: 1. Is my memory failing me, or did Kansas University defeat Oklahoma in that triple-overtime thriller in Allen Fieldhouse and again in Norman, Okla., when Devonté Graham outplayed Buddy Hield?

2. Am I incorrect in thinking that the No. 1 overall seed, and not the defending national champion, is supposed to be rewarded with the least difficult path to the Final Four?

I ask these questions because when I looked at the bracket, the first two things I noticed were that No. 2 seed Oklahoma and No. 4 seed Duke, both in the West region, were given easier roads than Kansas to the Final Four. I still like KU’s chances better than theirs, but its seems KU drew the short straw despite winning the Big 12 regular-season and tournament titles and finishing 30-4 with 14 consecutive victories.

Not only that, KU has the toughest potential secondround opponent of the four No. 1 seeds, facing either Connecticut, one of the nation’s hottest teams, or Colorado. Oregon plays the winner of Saint Joseph’s (22-7)/Cincinnati (22-10).

North Carolina faces the USC (21-12)/Providence (23-10) winner. Virginia meets either Texas Tech (19-12) or Butler (21-10).

Compare KU’s potential second-round foes to those of Oklahoma, a No. 2 seed.

The Sooners play the winner of Oregon State (19-12)/ VCU (24-10).

Don’t blame tournament committee chairman Joe Castiglione, Oklahoma’s athletic director, for the Sooners’ easy path. Whenever a committee member’s school is discussed, he or she must leave the room until the discussion ends. But human nature is such that those who spend long, stressful hours in a room together are going to want to make the member walking back into the room happy, especially someone as respected and well-liked as Castiglione.

The committee made a number of strange decisions this year, which makes me believe several members relied way too heavily on the dreaded RPI. Better computer rankings, such as Sagarin predictor and Kenpom.com, are available, but tend not to be used.

Let’s look at Kenpom. com. Nine schools from the South appear in the top 25 among teams eligible for the tournament (Louisville and SMU are serving tournament bans): Kansas Villanova, Wichita State, Miami, Arizona, California, Maryland, UConn, Vanderbilt. Five from the West are among the top 25: Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas AM, Duke and Baylor.

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Kansas University’s basketball team enters the 2016 NCAA Tournament as the best team in the country as deemed by AP and USA Today pollsters and 10 esteemed tourney committee members.

After processing all sorts of numbers the last five days, the committee on Sunday selected KU as the No. 1 overall seed in the 68-team field.

“I think it’s great. (But) I don’t think it means much. I don’t know the difference in any of the 1 seeds,” said KU coach Bill Self, whose Jayhawks (30-4) garnered the No. 1 seed in the South Regional.

KU will meet Austin Peay (18-17) approximately 3 p.m.

Thursday in Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa. A victory would push KU into Saturday’s second round against either UConn or Colorado.

The committee also

awarded top seeds to Virginia in the Midwest, North Carolina in the East and Oregon in the West.

“I guess from a player’s perspective, it would have to mean something going into the tournament that they have done so well that they are thought of being that,” Self added of being overall No. 1. “I was trying to think what it would be like, and it would be kind of like having a stellar high school career,

and it’s over, but when you get to college, you’ve got to start all over again and go compete.

“The tournament is a fresh start, and certainly for not only coaches, but players, and you’ve got to perform starting now. All the past has done has put us in position to be a high seed, but certainly now is where it counts the most.”

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Who: No. 1 seed Kansas (30-4) vs. No. 16 Austin Peay (18-17) When: 3 p.m.

Thursday Where: Des Moines, Iowa Please see KANSAS, page 2AA TV: TNT

Twelve teams that can win it all

Kansas has presidential history on its side

By Tom Keegan Twitter: @TomKeeganLJW

March Madness, otherwise known as presidential primary season, has competition for television ratings now that the NCAA basketball tournament has been born with the release of the brackets Sunday.

A look at Kansas University’s tournament path was not required to predict this will be a good month for the Jayhawks. It only required a look at the history books.

Bill Self, in his 13th year as Kansas coach, has a way of sticking around during presidential election years.

In 2000, Self took Tulsa to the Elite Eight. He took

MAKE IT A DOZEN n In honor of Kansas University’s remarkable run to 12 straight Big 12 Conference championships, we take a look at a bunch of dozens in this special section. Twelve teams that can win it all, top 12 performances by a Jayhawk in the NCAAs, a dozen reasons KU can win it all, 12 of the top players in the field … and much, much more.

Kansas that far in 2004, won the national title in 2008 and made it to the title game in 2012. That’s a 17-3 NCAA Tournament record in election years during his career.

What that says, more than anything, is that Self does such a thorough job of building his roster that the rest of the nation can’t keep him from national-title contention for more than three years at a time. This roster has the look of one that will play in multiple cities, unlike the last two years, which ended in the first city the Jayhawks visited.

Too experienced, too healthy, too free of distractions, the Jayhawks appear primed for a long tournament run and must be included in all conversations about potential national champions.

A look at a dozen schools that could win it all:

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Kansas Kenpom.com regularseason rankings: Overall: 2 Offensive efficiency: 6 Defensive efficiency: 10 Experience factor: 129 Average height: 102 Coach (NCAA Tourney record): Bill Self (37-16, .698, two Final Fours, one national title) Comment: Hottest team in the nation defends well, shoots threes at a high rate and plays its best basketball in the closing moments of close games. Coming off Please see 12 TEAMS, page 15AA

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AUSTIN PEAY PLAYERS CELEBRATE AFTER A BASKET AGAINST UT MARTIN IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME of the Ohio Valley Conference tournament on March 5 in Nashville, Tenn. The OVC’s automatic qualifier will face Kansas University around 3 p.m. Thursday in Des Moines, Iowa.

KU’S FIRST-ROUND FOE: AUSTIN PEAY

Governor guard no fan of Kansas

and text messages from friends and family members trying to get tickets.

The family members, Davis said, no doubt would be pulling for Austin Peay. But he wondered if his friends might be a different story. Many of them are KU fans, and Davis said that made the whole experience even more unreal.

When Davis and the Governors (18-17) meet the Jayhawks on Thursday in Des Moines, they will be one of four teams in this year’s field trying to make history by be-

coming the first No. 16 seed to upset a No. 1.

While the odds of doing that are significantly against them, Davis said his team’s path to the tournament gives them hope it can be done. Last week, Austin Peay became the first No. 8 seed in Ohio Valley Conference history to win the postseason tournament.

“We’ve got absolutely nothing to lose,” said Austin Peay coach Dave Loos, who is making his fourth NCAA Touranment appearance in 26 seasons at the school.

“It’s something that you have to look at as an opportunity and the chance to do something on a big stage. Our guys have been playing the last couple weeks with a lot of momentum and confidence, and we’re excited about the chance to take on one of the premiere programs in college basketball.”

In order to get that matchup, Austin Peay won four games in four days earlier this month, including a wild 97-96, overtime victory over Belmont in the OVC tournament semifinals. Aus-

tin Peay also beat Tennessee Tech, Tennessee State and UT Martin in that stretch.

During the regular season, the Governors lost at Belmont, 76-58, and also lost at Indiana (80-41) and at Vanderbilt (102-76), by far the two biggest names on their 2015-16 schedule.

Although the Governors and Jayhawks don’t have many opponents in common, Loos said he watched Kansas “a bunch” this season and came away impressed by the balance and number of weapons KU possessed, most notably senior forward Perry Ellis.

He also praised KU coach Bill Self as “one of the best in the country” and said he had the utmost respect for Self and the KU program.

“It’s a tough matchup for us, no question about it,” Loos said. “But we probably know more about them than they know about us right now.”

Loos said he first met Self when Loos was working at Memphis and Self was an assistant at Oklahoma State. Although their paths have not crossed much beyond that, Loos said his coaching style comes from the same school as Self’s.

“Offensively, we try to play what I would call inside-out and with some set plays and ball-screen motion,” Loos said. “Defensively, we’re mostly man-to-man.”

KU will head to Louisville for the Sweet 16 and a possible meeting with Mark Turgeon’s Maryland team if the Jayhawks win two in Des Moines.

Villanova, Iowa, Arizona and Wichita State are possible Elite Eight foes.

“I thought we would go to Chicago, but I’m fine with that,” said Self, who, when requesting information from iPhone information guru Siri was told Louisville was 515 miles from Lawrence and Chicago 448. The NCAA usually sends the No. 1

overall seed to the closest site.

“I think the only person that’s really disappointed with that is Jamari (Traylor, Chicago native). Jamari obviously would have loved to have gone back to Chicago, but, hey, Louisville is fine. I’ve never been to the Yum! Center (in Kentucky), and I hear it’s one of the best facilities in the country, and so we’ll be excited to be there, if we are fortunate enough to get there.”

As far as the first foe,

Austin Peay won the recent Ohio Valley Conference tournament as a No. 8 seed. The squad is led by 6-foot-8 senior Chris Horton, who averages 18.9 points and 12.1 boards and is coached by 69-year-old Dave Loos, who is making his fourth NCAA appearance in his 26 years at the school.

“I’ve known Dave a long time. I think he was an assistant at Memphis when I was just getting started,” Self said. “It’s got to be 20-plus years

that he’s been there, and certainly he’s always been a really wellrespected, nice guy. His son is assistant coach at Missouri and was Kim’s (Anderson, MU) assistant for a long time at Central Missouri.

“His granddaughter is going through a real tough time right now and just had surgery.

She’s in the hospital in New York City. CBS was able to conduct an interview that basically allowed her to tell grandpa congratulations

By Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com

When Austin Peay senior Khalil Davis saw his team’s name pop into the NCAA Tournament bracket against No. 1 overall Kansas University when the field was revealed Sunday evening, Davis could only shake his head.

Not because the task of taking on Kansas (304) in the first round on Thursday in Des Moines, Iowa, was too daunting.

Instead, because Davis could not believe that he will be able to tap into a lifetime’s worth of antiKU vibes.

See, Davis, a native of Kansas City, Mo., who attended Grandview High, grew up rooting against the Jayhawks and for his father, Tyrone, who played at Kansas State and has told his son plenty of tales about battles with Paul Pierce and the Jayhawks in the late ’90s.

“It’s really a dream come true,” Davis said via telephone Sunday night.

“At the beginning of the year, I talked to my pastor, and he told me it was going to be the biggest year of my life. To be able to get to the NCAA Tournament and to play Kansas is just an incredible blessing, and I’m looking forward to it.”

By 5:30 p.m. Sunday, less than an hour after the bracket was revealed, Davis said he had received more than 20 Facebook

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Self — he watched CBS’ Selection Sunday show with players, coaches and family members in the movie room of new players dorm McCarthy Hall — admitted he was surprised KU was not granted the top seed in the Midwest, where Chicago is the destination following the first weekend.

GUARD KHALIL DAVIS CELEBRATES Austin Peay’s Ohio Valley Conference tournament championship.

Because Kansas was selected as the tournament’s No. 1 overall seed, CBS revealed the Jayhawks’ region first. That started with Kansas at the top and its opponent after that. Because the selection show already had announced all four No. 1 seeds, Austin Peay became the first non-No. 1 named in this year’s field.

That, Loos said, made an already wild day even crazier.

“We had some indicators that we would be a team going to the (playin games in) Dayton, and that turned out not to be true, he said. “But it sure didn’t take long to find out who we were playing.

We found out right out of the gate. That was interesting.”

Austin Peay at a Glance Location: Clarksville, Tennessee Mascot: Governors Colors: Red and black Conference: Ohio Valley Record: 18-17 Leading scorers: Chris Horton (18.9), Josh Robinson (16.3), Khalil Davis (11.3) Leading rebounders: Chris Horton (12.1), Kenny Jones (5.5), Khalil Davis (4.0) Assist leaders: Khalil Davis (92), Josh Robinson (82), Terrell Thompson (55) All-OVC players: Chris Horton (first team), Josh Robinson (second team)

and all that stuff on his birthday, a really neat piece (on CBS on Saturday). And hopefully playing Austin Peay in some way, shape or form will bring attention to the cause and what they are trying to do with his granddaughter (who has rare form of pediatric cancer). But I haven’t spoken to Dave, probably in a year or so. But certainly I’ve always thought he was firstrate. He always treated me very, very well when I was a young guy.”

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TOP 12 PERFORMANCES BY A JAYHAWK IN THE NCAAS

Manning set standard in 1988

By Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com

When Kansas University’s men’s basketball team was announced as a member of this year’s NCAA Tournament field, the nation’s longest active streak of tournament appearances hit 27. It will be KU’s 45th appearance in the NCAAs. Kansas takes an alltime NCAA Tournament record of 97-43 into this year’s event, and all kinds of legendary players, memorable moments and heartbreaking losses remain fresh in the minds of KU fans from those previous 140 games.

Under the direction of 13th-year KU coach Bill Self, there figure to be many more noteworthy moments in the years to come.

And while we wait to see if any of the players on this year’s team will add their names to the list of past great performances, here’s a look back at the 12 most impressive individual NCAA Tournament efforts by a Kansas player:

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Danny Manning, 1988 national title game win over Oklahoma — In his final act in a career that left him as one of college basketball’s greatest players of all time, Manning scored 31 points and ripped down 18 rebounds in an 83-79 victory over Oklahoma that helped Kansas complete its miracle run to the 1988 national title.

Manning made 13 of 24 shots from the field and five of seven free throws while adding two assists and helping slow down OU forward Stacy King. Manning was the heart and soul of that Kansas team, and his memorable buckets and impassioned pleas for defense and his team to dig deep and smile, and Manning’s embrace with head coach Larry Brown are the lasting images of the upset victory.

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Clyde Lovellette, 1952 national title game win over St. John’s — Lovellette — who died Wednesday at the age of 86 — scored 33 points and grabbed 17 rebounds in 80-63, national championship game victory over St. John’s in 1952. The monster game came just a few days after Lovellette tallied 44 points in a victory over Saint Louis, a mark that still stands as the most points scored by a Jayhawk in an NCAA Tournament game. The win over St. John’s gave Lovellette the distinction of becoming the first

he ripped down 21 re- nament game. The scorbounds in a loss to Syra- ing outburst was part of a 141-point tournament for cuse. the consensus All-AmerDarrell Arthur, ican, which at the time 2008 national was an NCAA record. title game win vs.

Danny ManMemphis — KU’s ning, 1987 secnational championship in ond-round win 2008 would never have over Southbeen possible without Mario Chalmers’ miracle west Missouri State — shot, but Mario’s shot The KU junior poured in might not have been possi- 42 points and grabbed 16 ble without the incredible rebounds in a 67-63 vicgame turned in by Darrell tory in Atlanta. The 42 Arthur on both ends. The points stand as the sec6-foot-9 sophomore from ond-most by a Jayhawk Dallas scored 20 points on in an NCAA Tourna9-of-13 shooting and added ment game, and the 16 re10 rebounds, five on the bounds, which Manning accomplished offensive end, while play- actually ing just 35 of 45 minutes. twice in his career (1988 Arthur, who picked Kan- vs. Vanderbilt), are tied sas over Baylor after his for the second-most tourdecision came to him in a ney boards in a game in dream, also hit both free school history. No other throws he attempted and KU player scored more added a steal and an assist. than six points that night.

After the game, KU coach Thomas Rob- Larry Brown said he told inson, 2012 his team that no one else national title should attempt a shot game loss vs. without first looking to Kentucky — After will- pass to Manning. ing his team all the way Danny Manto the final Monday night ning, 1988 of the season with equal Sweet 16 parts talent, heart and win over tenacity, the first-team All-American delivered Vanderbilt — In his seca monster night in a los- ond-biggest game during effort against a crazy- ing the Danny and the talented Kentucky squad. Miracles run to the ’88 While staring UK center title, Manning poured in a Anthony Davis in the face career-high 38 points and all night long, Robinson grabbed a then-schoolattacked relentlessly and N C A A - T o u r n a m e n t finished with 18 points record 16 rebounds in a and 17 rebounds (five of- 77-64 victory over Vandy. fensive) in a 67-58 loss in The game marked the 129th double-digit scorNew Orleans. ing game of his career, tyCole Aldrich, ing Manning with Duke’s 2009 second- Johnny Dawkins for the round win over all-time record and also Dayton — One was his 51st consecuyear after a breakout per- tive double-digit scoring formance in the national game and 21st college semifinals against North game with 30 or more Carolina big man Ty- points. KU’s all-time leadler Hansbrough, Aldrich ing scorer made 16 of 29 proved that was no fluke. shots from the field and His 13-point, 20-rebound, grabbed five rebounds in 10-block game against just 29 minutes.

Dayton in his hometown of Minneapolis helped Honorable mention: propel Kansas into the Ryan Robertson scores 31 Sweet 16. The triple-dou- points in second-round, ble was the first official overtime loss to Kentucky such game in KU his- in 1999; Wayne Simien tory and just the sixth in scores 30 points, grabs NCAA Tournament his- nine rebounds and dishes tory to date, something five assists in 2004 Sweet that prompted his teary- 16 win over UAB to break eyed father, Walt, to put Chamberlain’s school rethe whole thing in per- cord with 18 free throws; spective after the game. Nick Collison scores 25 “He’ll be in the record points, grabs 15 rebounds books forever,” Walt told and blocks three shots in the Journal-World. “At a 2002 Elite Eight win over school with Wilt, Man- Oregon; Kirk Hinrich ning and (Nick) Collison. scores 28 points and adds I’m pretty proud of him.” five rebounds, five assists, two steals and two blocks C l y d e in Elite Eight win over Lovellette, Arizona in 2003; Alonzo 1952 sec- Jamison scores 26 points ond-round and grabs nine rebounds win over St. Louis — in Elite Eight win over ArLovellette’s 44 points in kansas in 1991; Mark Ranthe second game of the dall matches Christian 1952 tourney still stand as Laettner’s 18 points and the most scored by a KU 10 rebounds in 1991 title player in as NCAA Tour- game loss to Duke.

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DANNY MANNING, RIGHT, AND COACH LARRY BROWN CELEBRATE Kansas University’s national championship in 1988. Manning had 31 points and 18 rebounds in the title game in Kansas CIty, Mo. player to lead the nation in scoring and win an NCAA title the same year. Lovellette remains the only player to do so to date. Lovellette shot 12-of-25 from the floor and 9-of-11 from the freethrow line in the title game and earned the 1952 tournament’s Most Outstanding Player honor before going on to lead KU to a gold medal in the Olympics.

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Mario Chalmers, 2008 national title game win over Memphis — It is considered the greatest shot ever taken by a Kansas basketball player and helped deliver Bill Self his first national title and KU its first since 1988. Mario’s Miracle, as it has been dubbed, tied and sent a thrilling title game against Memphis to overtime, where the Jayhawks left little doubt they were the nation’s best team that season.

With 18 points on 5-of13 shooting, Chalmers finished as KU’s secondleading scorer in the game, but also added three rebounds, three assists and four steals before hitting the shot heard ’round the world.

Like Manning and Lovellette before him, Chalmers was named the 2008 tournament’s Most Outstanding Player.

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B.H. Born, 1953 national title game loss vs.

Indiana — Although the NCAA record book lists it as unofficial, a look back at the stats from the game reveals that the former KU center posted a triple-double during KU’s 69-68 loss to the Hoosiers in Kansas City, Mo. Born, who earned All-Big Seven honors that season and, in 1992, had his jersey retired at Allen Fieldhouse, tallied 26 points, 15 rebounds and 13 blocked shots.

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Wilt Chamberlain, 1957 national title game loss vs. North Carolina — Of all the big games the Big Dipper had for the Jayhawks, one of his most memorable may have come in a losing effort in the 1957 national title game, where Chamberlain and Kansas lost to unbeaten North Carolina, 54-53 in triple overtime.

Chamberlain led all scorers with 23 points, all rebounders with 14 boards and shot 11-of-16 from the free-throw line in a game the Tar Heels slowed down the pace to counteract Chamberlain’s huge size advantage. Although blocked shots was not an official statistic at the time, Chamberlain also swatted away sever-

al UNC shots and nearly led Kansas to victory. Despite falling short in the title game, Chamberlain was named the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player after piling big game on top of big game to lead KU to the final.

In the opening-round win over SMU, Chamberlain scored 36 points and ripped down 22 rebounds.

Chamberlain also tallied 30 points and 15 boards in a 20-point triumph over Oklahoma City in the regional final.

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Nick Collison, 2003 Sweet 16 win over Duke — Nick Collison’s monster effort in the Sweet 16 helped the Jayhawks survive thirdseeded Duke. The man who ranks second alltime on KU’s scoring list, third in rebounds and fourth in blocks scored 33 points on 14-of-22 shooting and added 19 rebounds in a 69-65 victory that propelled No. 2 seed KU into the Elite Eight for a showdown with No. 1 seed Arizona. Collison played all 40 minutes and added four assists, three blocks and a steal to his stat line. Two games later, in a Final Four win over Marquette, Collison finished with 12 points, 15 rebounds and five assists to lead KU into the national title game, where

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TOP 12 REASONS KU CAN WIN IT ALL IN 2016

Experience gives Kansas a shot tions, can explode on the national scene with huge NCAA tournaments.

Bragg averaged 3.7 points and 2.3 boards this regular season, while Diallo went for 2.9 points and 2.6 boards. Diallo had 22 blocks, which, in his limited duty, ranked second on the team.

By Gary Bedore gbedore@ljworld.com

Here are 12 reasons Kansas University’s men’s basketball team could reach the Final Four and win the school’s first national championship since 2008:

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Experience: The Jayhawks have one senior starter in Perry Ellis, three juniors in Frank Mason III, Wayne Selden Jr. and Landen Lucas, and one sophomore in Devonté Graham. In this day and age of oneand-done players, this is quite an experienced KU ballclub.

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Star player capable of carrying team: Ellis, who earned first-team All-Big 12 honors, averaged 16.5 points a game and 6.0 rebounds during the regular season.

He hit 52.1 percent of his shots including 45.6 percent from three and 76.3 from the line. Capable of scoring both inside and out, the 6-foot-8 Wichita native could go on a sixgame sizz reminiscent perhaps of Danny Manning’s run in 1988.

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Good guards: They say teams only go as far as their guards take them this time of year.

Well, KU has Mason, Graham and Selden. Mason has a chance to make some noise, especially.

He’s fired up after ESPN announcer Fran Fraschilla proclaimed him just the league’s sixth-best point guard late in the regular season. Graham has de-

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Tradition: KU expects to win and as one of the country’s bluebloods figures to return to the Final Four and NCAA champions throne sooner rather than later.

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A n d r e a Hudy: The Jayhawks’ strength and conditioning coach uses the latest technology to keep the players in tip-top shape. The players’ work on their bodNick Krug/Journal-World File Photo ies pays off this time of HERE ARE SEVERAL BIG REASONS KANSAS UNIVERSITY STANDS A GOOD CHANCE to win it all this season — the cumulative year when teams tend experience of Wayne Selden Jr. (1), Perry Ellis, Frank Mason III (0) and Jamari Traylor; Ellis’ star power; Mason’s guard play; to get worn down. and, oh yeah, the coaching by the fellow on the right, Bill Self.

Assistant coaches veloped a reputation as travel far in the NCAAs during a 27-4 regular a stop, it can get one on K u r t i s a guy willing to take, and Midwest Regional. If season. The team hit most occasions.

Townsend, make, the big shot during KU can win two games 49.2 percent of its shots Instant offense Norm Roberts, Jerin Des Moines, Iowa, and cashed 42.9 percent crunch time. off bench: Kan- rance Howard: The Jaythe Jayhawks would ad- from three. If the team Bill Self: KU’s vance to Louisville for needs points it could sas’ Sviatoslav hawks’ aides are known 13th-year coach the Sweet 16 and Elite conceivably rack up a M y k h a i l i u k for their astute scouting knows what it Eight. The Final Four bunch in a hurry. Dur- (31-of-82 from three reports put together aftakes, having is in Houston. The Jay- ing the regular season, during regular season) ter studying hours of engineered the magical hawks, of course, travel the Jayhawks hit 484 of and Brannen Greene film. Scouting reports run to the NCAA crown to Texas quite a bit dur- 691 free throws for a so- (30-of-58 from three) are key sometimes on in 2008 and directing the ing the Big 12 season. so 70 percent. are capable of lighting short notice during the Jayhawks to the NCAA it up from outside on a NCAAs. Team offense: Team defense: given night. championship game, The Jayhawks KU, which prides where it fell to Kentucky, Nobody knows what Motivated Mc- will happen in the wild, have been exitself on sticky in 2012.

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TOP 12 PLAYERS (NOT FROM KU) IN THE NCAAS

Hield, Valentine headline field take over a game, Johnson is active on the defensive glass, demonstrative after most baskets and shoots 60 percent from the floor and 76 percent from the free-throw line.

Long, lean and blessed with the ability to operate and attack smoothly, the 6-9, 228-pound senior has saved his best season for last. Stat skinny: 16.8 ppg, 10.8 rpg, 1.4 apg

By Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com

For fans of Kansas University basketball, March Madness is all about a handful of names.

Self. Selden. Ellis. Mason. Graham. Greene.

You get the picture.

But even if the Jayhawks were to win it all this year and bring coach Bill Self his second national championship trophy, they would play just six games in the next three weeks.

When you consider that the tournament that many call the greatest sporting event in the world features a whopping 59 other games not involving the Jayhawks, it might not be a bad idea for KU fans to learn the names of some of the most exciting players in this year’s field.

Many of the Tremendous 12 listed below are names you’ve heard of from programs that always seem to be in the running for the big prize.

But there are a couple of sleepers, too. Either way, this group figures to make the upcoming madness must-see TV.

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Buddy Hield, Oklahoma — Oklahoma’s thin bench hurt the Sooners down the stretch, but the consensus Big 12 player of the year and serious candidate for national player of the year did his part. As KU fans know all too well, Hield has range from anywhere on the floor and also is a creative enough scorer to get his own shot off the dribble, attack the rim or crash the boards looking to clean up the glass. Stat skinny*: 25.1 ppg, 5.5 rpg, 2.1 apg

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OKLAHOMA GUARD BUDDY HIELD (24) ROARS after hitting a three against the Jayhawks in this photo from Feb. 13 in Norman, Okla.

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Denzel Valentine, Michigan State — Quite possibly the most complete player in the field — as KU fans know from his 29-point, 12-rebound, 12-assist game in a win over Kansas in November — Valentine has the look of a modern-day Danny Manning, a guy who can do a little bit of everything and can put a team on his back en route to a deep tournament run.

Even though the 6-foot-5, 220-pound guard prefers to get others involved first, he is capable of handling the scoring load, and so many of his stats come in an effortless manner. Stat skinny: 19.6 ppg, 7.5 rpg, 7.5 apg

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sophomore’s strong game and sick skills are undeniable. He can score from anywhere on the floor and plays as hard as anybody in the field. Allen exploded onto the scene during last year’s title run, and his encore performance has been everything Duke fans had hoped it would be and then some. Stat skinny: 21.5 ppg, 4.5 rpg. 3.5 apg

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Tyler Ulis, Kentucky — Despite standing just 5-9, 160 pounds, Ulis is the kind of player that can take over a game by himself. KU fans saw this firsthand at Allen Fieldhouse in late January, and the small but slick combo guard is deadly from the outside when left open and also can put defenders on skates and blow by them on his way to the paint. Stat skinny: 16.6 ppg, 3.3 rpg, 7.4 apg

Grayson Allen, Duke — One of the most polarizing players in the field, Allen has become the latest great Duke player Brice Johnson, whom people either love North Carolina or hate. When he’s not — One of the drawing attention to himfew players on a self by tripping opponents or whining to officials, the good UNC team that can

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like. In short, Ferrell is the guy who makes Tom Crean’s Hoosiers go, and his confidence is at an alltime high. Stat skinny: 17.1 ppg, 3.9 rpg, 5.5 apg

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Diamond Stone, Maryland — The muscle part of Maryland’s 1-2 punch of Stone and sophomore Melo Trimble, the freshman who arrived at UM with incredible hype has lived up to it in a big way and appears to be getting stronger week after week. He has the potential to humiliate or harass opponents on the defensive end and loves to get the ball down low and go to work on offense. His numbers are modest, but his play has been loud. Remember, this is a first-year player who has been a major factor in the ACC this season. Stat skinny: 12.7 ppg, 5.4 rpg, 0.4 apg

Jakob Poeltl, Utah — A future lottery pick with that Euro game, Poeltl is a force in the post as much for his creativity and ability to draw fouls as his size and strength.

The 7-foot center from Vienna, Austria, has doubled some of his most significant stats from a strong freshman season and appears to be poised to take the Utes on a deep tourney run. Although he is not the most physical player in the paint, Sheldon McClelhe plays extremely hard, lan, Miami, Fla. and his size alone creates — Dual-threat, major problems for opdynamic scorer ponents on both ends of the floor. Stat skinny: 17.5 who transferred to The U after playing the 2012ppg, 9.1 rpg, 1.9 apg 13 season at Texas, McYogi Ferrell, Indi- Clellan can score in so ana — A couple many different ways and of months ago, always looks like he has people wondered a blast doing it. Some of if Indiana was even going his most notable buckets to make the tournament. have come on high-flying The Hoosiers quickly slam dunks, but the 6-5, erased any doubt, and 205-pound senior has their point guard is a huge great touch from inside reason why. One of the and out and, with his best players in last year’s physicality and strength, tournament, Ferrell has is a tough match-up for only continued to get bet- almost every team he facter and, like Ulis, is deadly es. Stat skinny: 15.7 ppg, from three-point range 3.2 rpg, 1.7 apg — guarded or not — but Ben Bentil, rarely forces his shot Providence and instead looks to dish — One of sweet dimes to his teamthe hottest mates in positions they

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scorers in the country down the stretch, the 6-9, 235-pound sophomore forward averaged 23.4 points per game from Feb. 1 to March 1, which put him in the top three among all major-conference players, tied with Duke’s Grayson Allen. For the season, Bentil leads the Friars in scoring and rebounding, yet still somehow plays second fiddle to teammate and national player of the year candidate Kris Dunn.

Stat skinny: 21.2 ppg, 7.8 rpg, 1.2 apg

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Josh Hart, Villanova — The most balanced offensive player on one of the nation’s top teams this season, Hart has worked his way into many player of the year conversations with a good blend of scoring ability and crafty defense. Physical, fluid and a relentless competitor, Hart uses his good vision, great range and ability to attack off the dribble to keep defenses off balance. Stat skinny: 15.3 ppg, 7.2 rpg, 1.8 apg

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Isaiah Miles, Saint Joseph’s — The 6-7 senior enjoyed a monster season by shooting 58 percent from the floor, 39 percent from three-point range and 88 percent from the free-throw line.

Add to that incredible accuracy the fact that Miles has a knack for hitting big shots late in games, and you’re looking at one of the most exciting, lesser-known players in the field. Stat skinny: 18.0 ppg, 8.1 rpg, 0.8 apg *Regular season averages

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Tyshawn Taylor: The lone fouryear starter during the streak, Taylor played 33 minutes eight days after having surgery to repair a torn meniscus. KU had no shot of continuing its conference-title streak without a big freshman season from Taylor. He delivered. KU needed a big-scoring senior season from Taylor, who did not average double figures in his first three seasons, to keep the streak alive. Again, he delivered, averaging 16.6 points.

By Tom Keegan Twitter: @TomKeeganLJW

Every Kansas University basketball player who has a Big 12 championship ring from 2005 on has a share in the remarkable streak of 12 consecutive regular-season Big 12 championships.

Identifying the 12 players with the biggest shares of the streak is a task as difficult as choosing the 12 biggest insults leveled from one candidate to another during this particularly lively campaign season.

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B e n McLemore: A secondteam AllAmerican and first-team All-Big 12 pick in 2013, McLemore led the team in scoring, showing equal skill shooting threes and dunking and played strong defense.

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Andrew Wiggins: A second-team AllAmerican and first-team All-Big 12 in 2014, Wiggins exploded for 41 points in a loss at West Virginia. His blurry-quick first step and long stride led to many thrilling dunks, and his long arms enabled him to recover with a steal or blocked shot after getting beaten off the dribble.

He’s the favorite to become the first Bill Selfcoached Kansas player to participate in the NBA All-Star Game.

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KANSAS GUARD SHERRON COLLINS CUTS DOWN THE REMAINDER OF THE NET following the Jayhawks’ 72-64 win over Kansas State in the 2010 Big 12 tournament championship game. one of the seasons (2004- lection to the Big 12 All05) of the 12-year title run. Defensive squad.

He earned first-team AllMario Chalmers: American honors and was He earned Big Big 12 Player of the Year.

12 All-Defensive Jeff Withey: The team honors and 7-footer went was the team’s secondscoreless in a leading scorer to Brangame at Mis- don Rush in each of his souri and failed to chase three seasons at Kansas. down a loose ball at the Long before The Shot, he next Kansas practice. Self had gained a reputation made him run the Allen as being the team’s best Fieldhouse steps while shooter with a game on his teammates contin- the line. ued to practice. Withey Marcus Morris: A turned into a beast from three-year startthat point forward. His er who arrived wide shot-blocking range at Kansas as a enabled Thomas Robinson to concentrate more passive player who didn’t on rebounding than de- seem terribly interested fending, and they com- in mustering the energy plemented each other to dunk, Morris develbeautifully all the way to oped into a nasty comthe national-title game petitor who attacked the in 2012. The next year, rim with vicious dunks, Withey joined McLemore had great vision he used as first-team All-Big 12 to set up teammates and a and second-team All- soft shooting touch down American. Two-time se- low, at mid-range and on

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Cole Aldrich: A rugged rebounder and a shotblocker who covered so much ground, Aldrich steadily improved, all the way to second-team All-American in his third and final season, 2009-10. Two-time AllBig 12 first-team and twotime Big 12 All-Defensive team honoree played with smarts, toughness and for a while with a hockeyPerry Ellis: A goalie mask. four-time state Thomas Robchampion in inson: The high school and strength and a four-time Big 12 chamexplosiveness pion for Kansas, Ellis is a three-year starter and were evident from his two-time All-Big 12 first- freshman season, but he team selection. Come out was out of control at the to try to prevent him from start of his career. Descoring from the perim- veloped into Wooden eter, and he’ll blow right Award runner-up and by you. Play off of him, first-team All-American and he’ll bury a jumper in during his junior season. your face. Quick and fast, Played with such power Ellis quietly has had a ter- and hustle that he seemed to demoralize opponents. rific career. the perimeter. His hands were even softer, and he never bobbled a pass or a rebound. As a college player, he was even better than his brother, Markieff. A three-year starter, Marcus earned All-Big 12 first-team honors as a junior and was a secondteam selection as a sophomore. He was a secondteam All-American as a junior.

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AN INJURED KEVIN DURANT HITS THE DECK after hurting his ankle during his March 3, 2007, visit to Allen Fieldhouse. Durant is one of many uber-talented hoops standouts denied a Big 12 title over the past 12 seasons.

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James Anderson (Oklahoma State): Big 12 Player of the Year and second-team All-American in 2010, he had such deep range and such a quick release that he could shoot the Cowboys into games that weren’t necessarily going so great otherwise.

So many terrific Big 12 players never experienced celebrating a regular-season conference title because Kansas University’s program, a model of consistent excellence, prevented them from winning the hardware.

Jacob Pullen A look at a dozen of the (Kansas State): best players denied a Big Two-time All12 title because of Kansas’ Big 12 first-team 12-year run that includes eight outright titles and selection torched Kansas for 38 points to lead four shared ones: Wildcats to 84-68 vicJ u w a n tory in Bramlage in his S t a t e n final game against the (West Vir- Jayhawks. Super quick, ginia): As a intense competitor twice junior, Staten averaged earned All-Defensive 37.3 minutes, 18.1 points, team honors.

5.6 rebounds and 5.8 asAcie Law (Texas sists. His in-your-face, A&M): A 2007 no-frills competitive first-team Allstyle matched that of his American, Law talented coach, Bob Hughit huge shot after huge gins. shot for the Aggies. He Marcus Den- hit a buzzer-beating three mon (Missouri): to defeat top rival Texas The quick, ag- and hit a three late over gressive guard the outstretched arms of from Kansas City scored Brandon Rush in Allen from the perimeter and Fieldhouse for the upset. on relentless drives to the Marcus Smart hoop. Earned All-Big 12 (Oklahoma): first-team recognition in Amazing, sponhis final two seasons for taneous back flip the Tigers. he executed on the court G e o r g e s after Cowboys defeated Niang (Iowa KU in Allen Fieldhouse. It State): A was the signature moment menu might of his outstanding freshnot fit under his feet on man season. He tailed off his jump-shot, but he sure a bit as a sophomore and has a knack for scoring never had a consistent from anywhere on the jumper, but he was a lot to floor. Also a skilled ball- handle and a very skilled handler and passer and flopper. Second-team Alla tough rebounder who American as a freshman. knows how to gain posiBuddy Hield tion.

(Oklahoma): TwoMelvin Ejim time reigning Big (Iowa State): A 12 Player of the four-year starter Year won’t soon be forgotfor the Cyclones, ten by Kansas fans, who Ejim earned Big 12 Player gave him ovation after he of the Year honors as a scored 46 points in a 109senior.

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A look at KU’s NCAA streak nior Adonis Jordan (12.8 ppg) led KU’s attack, with sophomore forward Richard Scott (10.1) also breaking onto the scene.

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Kansas University has the longest active streak for NCAA Tournament appearances at 27.

Duke is No. 2 with 20 straight.

Here’s a look back at the Jayhawks’ 26 straight previous trips to the Dance:

1992-93 Led by the dynamic backcourt of seniors Adonis Jordan and Rex Walters, the Jayhawks marched back to the Final Four for the second time in three seasons, this time falling to North Carolina in the national semifinals, 78-68, in New Orleans.

Second-seeded Kansas got past Jason Kidd and Cal in the Sweet 16 and then upended Bob Knight and Indiana in the regional final before losing to the eventual national champs. KU finished 297, and Walters (15.3 ppg) and Jordan (12.1) led the balanced offensive attack.

1989-90 Back in the Big Dance after serving a one-year probation from the Larry Brown era, the Jayhawks began a stretch of 27 consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances under little-known head coach Roy Williams. Led by senior guard Kevin Pritchard (14.5 ppg) and junior forward Mark Randall (13.5 ppg), the second-seeded Jayhawks finished 30-5 but lost in the second round of the tournament to UCLA.

1993-94 This season famously ended with Purdue standout Glen “Big Dog” Robinson dunking over KU’s Greg Ostertag, who solicited a handshake after the nasty slam. Led by senior guard Steve Woodberry (15.5 ppg) and senior forward Richard Scott (13.7 ppg), the Jayhawks earned a No. 4 seed in the NCAA Tournament and finished 27-8 after bowing out in the Sweet 16.

1990-91 In just his third season leading the Jayhawks, Williams took Kansas to the first of four Final Fours in 15 seasons under his direction. Kansas, a 3 seed led by senior sharpshooter Terry Brown (16 ppg) and senior forward Mark Randall (15 ppg), made it all the way to the title game, where the Jayhawks lost to Grant Hill and Duke. One game earlier, Williams matched up with mentor Dean Smith and North Carolina and knocked off his old boss 79-73. KU finished the Terry Brown, 1990 season 27-8. tion and 27-5 overall, the 1991-92 Despite KU finish- ’91-92 season marked the ing the regular season first of a handful of heartranked No. 2 in the na- breaking and disappoint-

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Raef LaFrentz and Scot Pollard) that what would go on to make up one of the best teams in school history a couple of years down the road, the Jayhawks finished 25-6.

1995-96 With most key members of the previous team back and freshman standout Paul Pierce joining the crew, the Jayhawks earned a No. 2 seed and advanced to the Elite Eight before falling to fourth-seed and eventual national runner-up Syracuse in Denver. The Orangemen, led by John Wallace, knocked off top-seeded Purdue in the Sweet 16 and kept their roll going against Kansas.

Raef LaFrentz (13.4 ppg) and Pierce (11.9 ppg) led KU in scoring, and the Jayhawks finished 29-5.

1996-97 Arguably the best team in school history joined the group of tourney heartbreakers when the top-seeded Jayhawks were upset by No. 4 seed Arizona in the Sweet 16. Again led by Raef LaFrentz (18.5 ppg) and Paul Pierce (16.3 ppg), with the backcourt of Jacque Vaughn and Jerod Haase serving as perfect complement, the Jayhawks finished 34-2 and were the first of three No. 1 seeds to fall to the Wildcats during Arizona’s historic run to the national title.

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The Jayhawks caught a bad break with their Final Four match-up, losing 97-88 to eventual national champion Maryland in a game that many said should have been the national title game. Drew Gooden (19.8 ppg), Nick Collison (15.6 ppg) and Kirk Hinrich (14.8 ppg) led the Jayhawks, who finished 33-4.

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scoring, but for the third year in a row, the highly favored Jayhawks were bounced from the tournament in heartbreaking fashion. Entering the tournament with two All-Americans and at 34-3 overall, top-seeded KU drubbed Prairie View A&M 110-52 in the opener before falling to No. 8 seed Rhode Island 80-75 in Round Two. LaFrentz graduated, and Pierce left a year early, ending one of the best three-year stretches in KU history.

1998-99 The loss of Paul Pierce and Raef LaFrentz brought the Jayhawks back down to Earth, and Kansas finished the ’9899 season with doubledigit losses for the first time in the Williams era.

Sophomore center Eric Chenowith (13.5 ppg) and senior guard Ryan Robertson (12.8 ppg) led the KU offense, but the Jayhawks managed just a No. 6 seed and, despite a career-high 31 points from Robertson, fell to third-seeded Kentucky, 92-89 in overtime, in the second round.

1999-2000 The slide continued for Kansas after the 10-loss 1998-99 season. But 2000 also marked the beginning of a major surge. Led by junior Kenny Gregory (12.8 ppg) and talented freshmen Nick Collison, Drew Gooden and Kirk Hinrich, the Jayhawks struggled to a No. 8 seed and lost to top-seeded Duke in the second round, 69-64, in a game that featured an epic battle between Hinrich and former Duke point guard Jason Williams. KU finished the season 24-10.

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Kirk Hinrich, 2002 2000-01 Sophomores Drew Gooden (15.8 ppg), Nick Collison (14 ppg) and Kirk Hinrich (11.5) joined senior Kenny Gregory (15.6 ppg) to lead the Jayhawks to a 26-7 record and No. 4 seed in the tournament. But after easy victories over Cal-State

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The young Jayhawks were beat up by the more physical and veteran Illini squad, and the disappointment of that loss

paved the way for backto-back Final Fours in the next two seasons.

2001-02 Back in the Final Four for the third time under Williams and the first time since 1993, Kansas entered the tournament as a No. 1 seed for the first

2002-03 The Jayhawks’ talented trio of seniors-to-be lost Drew Gooden to the NBA Draft, but that didn’t stop Kirk Hinrich (17.3 ppg) and Nick Collison (18.5 ppg), with the emergence of sophomores Aaron Miles, Keith Langford and Wayne Simien, from getting back to the Final Four. Second-seeded Kansas lost six regularseason games, and early in the Big 12 tourney, but reached the Final Four for a second straight season by going through a bracket that included tough wins over No. 3 seed Duke and No. 1 seed Arizona. From there, the Jayhawks blitzed Dwyane Wade and Marquette in the Final Four before falling to Syracuse, 81-78, in the national title game.

The loss to Carmelo Anthony and the Orangemen wound up being the last coached by Williams at Kansas, and the Jayhawks finished the season 30-8.

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seeded Jayhawks lost to Georgia Tech in overtime in the Elite Eight after drubbing a UAB team that knocked off top-seeded Kentucky. Self, who left Illinois to come to Kansas, led the Jayhawks to a 24-9 record during his first season in Lawrence.

Self would not lose nine games again in a season until 10 years later.

2004-05 The incredible fouryear run of seniors Wayne Simien (20.3 ppg), Keith Langford (14.4 ppg), Aaron Miles (9.3 ppg) and Michael Lee ended in heartbreak in Oklahoma City. That’s where No. 3 seed KU fell to Bucknell in the opening round of the tournament when Simien’s last-gasp chance at a game-winner fell short in the final seconds.

Kansas finished 23-7 during Self’s second season in charge.

2005-06 With three freshmen finishing among the top four in scoring, the Jayhawks ushered in a whole new era of leading men.

Brandon Rush (13.5 ppg), who led the team in scoring all three of his seasons at KU, joined Mario Chalmers (11.5 ppg) and Julian Wright (8.5 ppg) to lead the new-look squad made more in Self’s style.

Before they could become champions, these young Jayhawks had to take their lumps and never did the blow hit harder than in this NCAA Tournament, where 13th-seeded Bradley became the second team in a row to knock the Jayhawks out in the first round. Fourth2003-04 seeded KU finished the Kansas’ first NCAA year 25-8.

Tournament run under new head coach Bill Self 2006-07 After back-to-back came as close as it gets to the Final Four without first-round exits, the topactually reaching it. Led seeded Jayhawks, led by Brandon by juniors Wayne Simien sophomores (17.8 ppg) and Keith LangPlease see STREAK, page 14AA ford (15.5 ppg), the fourth-

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Rush (13.8 ppg), Mario Chalmers (12.2 ppg) and Julian Wright (12.0 ppg), got back on track with a deep tourney run that ended with a 68-55 loss to second-seeded UCLA in the Elite Eight. KU’s run featured a second-round win over No. 8 seed Kentucky and Rajon Rondo and a dog-fight win over Southern Illinois in the Sweet 16. KU finished the season 33-5.

2007-08 Led by a group of juniors who suffered a firstround loss to Bradley in the tournament during their freshman season, the Jayhawks rolled to the program’s first national championship since 1988, knocking off Davidson and Steph Curry, North Carolina and Roy Williams and Memphis and John Calipari along the way. The Jayhawks were a part of history during this run, as all four No. 1 seeds reached the Final Four for the first time.

Led by Brandon Rush (13.3 ppg), Mario Chalmers (12.8 ppg), Darnell Jackson (11.2 ppg) and Darrell Arthur (12.8 ppg), KU drubbed UNC in the national semifinals, leading Carolina 40-12 at one point, and ripped off an incredible comeback from nine down with 2:12 to play to knock off Memphis in overtime in the title game. Chalmers’ miracle three-pointer in the final seconds tied the game, and KU dominated the OT to finish the season on top of the mountain with a 37-3 overall record.

2008-09 Forced to replace all five starters from the national championship team one year earlier, the Jayhawks leaned on the dynamic duo of junior Sherron Collins (18.9 ppg) and sophomore Cole Aldrich (14.9 ppg) to finish the season 278. Freshman point guard Tyshawn Taylor and freshman forward Marcus Morris, whose brother, Markieff, also was on the team, helped KU survive the loss of six of the eight players who played in the title game against Memphis in 2008. Seeded third in the NCAAs, Kansas lost in the Sweet 16, 67-62, to a Michigan State team that went on to lose to North Carolina in the national championship game.

2009-10 With Sherron Collins (15.5 ppg) and Cole Aldrich (11.3 ppg) back to lead the team one more time, Kansas roared to a monster regular season, losing just twice — at Tennessee and at Oklahoma State — en route to a No. 1 seed in the Midwest regional. Freshman

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starter Xavier Henry (13.4 ppg) added firepower to KU’s lineup, and the Jayhawks rolled into the tournament as the No. 1 overall seed. But KU ran into a tough Northern Iowa team in Oklahoma City, and a monster shot

by Ali Farokhmanesh was the final dagger in UNI’s upset over the Jayhawks, who finished the season 33-3.

faced former KU coach Roy Williams in the tournament — this time in the second round in Kansas City, Mo. — and Bill Self improved to 3-0 at Kansas against his predecessor.

That put Kansas into the Sweet 16, where the topseeded Jayhawks played great for 35 minutes but collapsed late against No. 4 seed Michigan and lost in overtime. KU finished the season 31-6 and would 2010-11 enter the following seaWith one of its most son looking to replace veteran squads since the five starters once again.

2008 national title, Kansas, for the second sea- 2013-14 Landing Andrew Wigson in a row, enjoyed a two-loss regular season gins, the top-rated player — home vs. Texas and in the 2013 recruiting at Kansas State — and class and future No. 1 entered the NCAA Tour- overall pick in the NBA nament with a No. 1 seed. D r a f t , As if that weren’t enough, h e l p e d KU’s Southwest regional the Jayblew wide-open early on, h a w k s paving the way for what s u r v i v e looked to be a favorable life after road to the Final Four. the deSeeds 2-8 lost in the first p a r t u r e or second round, and KU of some rolled into the Elite Eight, m a i n - Wiggins where it faced 11th-seed- stays, but ed VCU and up-and-com- W i g g i n s ing coach Shaka Smart. (17.1 ppg) was not enough The Jayhawks, led by the to lead the Jayhawks very Morris twins (Marcus far in the postseason.

17.2 ppg and Markieff 13.6 With dominant freshppg), never got going of- man center Joel Embiid fensively and shot poorly (11.2 ppg) sidelined befrom the outside in the cause of a back injury for regional final in San An- the final six games of the tonio and were knocked season, Kansas earned out by VCU, 71-61, ending a No. 2 seed in the Midthe season with a 35-3 re- west regional but did not make it out of the first cord. weekend, losing to No. 10 2011-12 seed Stanford, 60-57, in Back as a starter for St. Louis. Kansas finished the fourth year in a the season 25-10, marking row, senior point guard the first time since 1999Tyshawn Taylor (16.6 2000 that KU’s loss total ppg) teamed with junior reached double digits. forward 2014-15 and AllWith the disappointAmerican ment of an early exit in Thomas 2014 still lingering and the Robinson Jayhawks forced to move (17.7 ppg) on from Andrew Wiggins, to lead a junior Perry Ellis (13.8 thin but ppg) and sophomores talented Frank Mason III (12.6 KU squad ppg) and Wayne Selden Mario Chalmers, 2008 on a run Taylor Jr. (9.4 ppg) led Kansas to all the way to the national title a No. 2 seed and secondgame. KU, seeded sec- round matchup with surgond, squeaked by Purdue ing Wichita State, which in Omaha to get the run reached the Final Four started and then played in 2013 and saw an undestellar defense in wins feated season go down in over North Carolina 2014 with a second-round State, North Carolina and tourney loss to Kentucky.

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KANSAS NOTEBOOK Des Moines, Iowa Spokane, Wash.

Providence, R.I. Brooklyn, N.Y. Spokane, Wash.

Providence, R.I. Oklahoma City

Sweet 16

Mar. 19

4 California (22-10)

Mar. 20

5 Indiana (25-7)

Thurs., 6:10 p.m.

12 Chattanooga (29-5) Mar. 19

Houston

Fri., 1 p.m

April 2

13 Hawaii (27-5) Thurs., 8:20 p.m.

6 Notre Dame (21-11) Fri., 8:40 p.m.

Mar. 27

Mar. 26

11 Vanderbilt/Wich. St.

Thurs., 8:40 p.m.

Philadelphia

Louisville, Ky.

11 Mich./Tulsa

Mar. 19

Mar. 20

Thurs., 5:50 p.m.

3 West Virginia (26-8) Fri., 6:10 p.m.

14 Buffalo (24-14)

14 SF Austin (27-5) Mar. 24

7 Iowa (21-10)

Mar. 25

National Championship

Fri., 2:10 p.m.

10 Temple (21-11) 2 Villanova (29-5)

4 Kentucky (26-8) 13 Stony Brook (26-6)

EAST

SOUTH

6 Arizona (25-8)

3 Miami (25-7)

Thurs., 8:50 p.m.

Final Four

12 So. Dakota St. (26-7)

8 USC (21-12)

9 Providence (23-10) Mar. 25

Fri., 3:30 p.m.

March 17-18

1 North Carolina (28-6) Thurs., 6:20 p.m.

March 26-27

Mar. 24

5 Maryland (25-8)

First Round

16 FGCU/FDU Mar. 19

Elite Eight

March 26-27

9 UConn (24-10)

March 19-20

March 24-25

Elite Eight

Thurs., 12:30 p.m.

Second Round

Mar. 20

Fri., 5:50 p.m.

10 Pittsburgh (21-11) Mar. 20

April 4

Fri., 11:40 a.m.

15 UNC Ashville (22-11)

7 Wisconsin (20-12)

2 Xavier (27-5) Fri., 8:20 p.m.

15 Weber State (26-8)

1 Oregon (28-6)

1 Virginia (26-7)

16 Holy Cross/South.

16 Hampton (21-10)

Fri., 6:27 p.m.

8 Saint Joseph’s (27-7)

Thurs., 2:10 p.m.

Mar. 20

Mar. 19

Fri., 8:57 p.m.

Thurs., 11:40 a.m.

9 Cincinnati (22-10)

9 Butler (21-10) Mar. 24

5 Baylor (22-11)

Mar. 25

5 Purdue (26-8)

Thurs., 1:45 p.m.

Thurs., 3:30 p.m.

12 Yale (22-6)

4 Duke (23-10)

12 Little Rock (27-4) Mar. 19

Mar. 19

Thurs. 11:15 a.m.

WEST

6 Texas (20-12)

Mar. 20

Mar. 27

Thurs., 8:57 p.m.

11 Gonzaga (26-7) Mar. 19

All times EDT

Fri., 6:20 p.m.

6 Seton Hall (25-8)

Chicago

Mar. 26

11 No. Iowa (22-12)

13 Iona (22-10)

MIDWEST

Anaheim, Calif.

Fri., 8:50 p.m.

3 Utah (26-8) Thurs., 6:27 p.m.

14 Green Bay (23-12)

14 Fresno St. (25-9) Mar. 24

7 Oregon St. (19-12)

Mar. 25

7 Dayton (25-7) Fri., 11:15 a.m.

Fri., 12:30 p.m.

10 VCU (24-10)

2 Oklahoma (25-7)

4 Iowa State (21-11) Thurs., 1 p.m.

13 UNC Wilm. (25-7)

3 Texas A&M (26-8)

8 Texas Tech (19-12)

10 Syracuse (19-13) Mar. 20

Mar. 20

2 Michigan St. (29-5)

St. Louis

Oklahoma City

Sweet 16

March 24-25

Thurs., 3 p.m.

16 Austin Peay (18-17) 8 Colorado (22-11)

Men’s Division I Basketball Championship

Denver

Michigan State Kenpom.com regularseason rankings: Overall: 3 Offensive efficiency: 1 Defensive efficiency: 29 Experience factor: 148 Average height: 112 Coach (NCAA tourney record): Tom Izzo (46-17, .730, seven Final Fours, one national title) Comment: The player with the ball in his hands the most can carry his team to the national title, as UConn’s Kemba Walker and Shabbazz Napier and Duke’s Tyus Jones showed in recent seasons.

Spartans senior point guard Denzel Valentine, a 6-foot-5, 220-pound power point guard, averaged 19.6 points, 7.4 rebounds and 7.5 assists led the Spartans to six consecutive victories at the end of the regular season. Izzo’s teams always compete extremely hard, and with Valentine

March 19-20

16 Southern U. (22-12)

Denver

back-to-back secondround losses, Kansas does not have one-anddone freshman distractions as in previous two years, when Joel Embiid (back stress fracture) and Cliff Alexander (suspension) did not play in the postseason. Perry Ellis is looking to improve on a 4-3 record in NCAA Tournament games, and with Frank Mason III playing the best basketball of his career of late, chances are this will be Ellis’ best tournament experience.

1 Kansas (30-4)

11 Tulsa (20-11)

Raleigh, N.C.

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Second Round

March 15-16 Dayton, Ohio

Wed., 5:40 p.m.

16 Holy Cross (14-19)

St. Louis

12 teams

16 FDU (18-14)

Wed., 8:10 p.m.

11 Michigan (22-12)

Brooklyn, N.Y.

Bracket leaked The NCAA Tournament bracket appeared on Twitter before CBS had a chance to reveal the pairings on its 4:30-6:30 p.m.

Selection Sunday show.

According to syracuse. com, the bracket was posted by a Twitter user (with an obscene handle) who has a Kansas Jayhawk logo as his avatar and Royals logo as his background on Twitter.

“We take this matter seriously and we are looking into it,” said David Worlock of the NCAA in an e-mail sent to media, including the Journal-World.

March 17-18

11 Wichita St. (24-8)

First Four

Des Moines, Iowa

Top seed an honor KU junior Landen Lucas on the team grabbing the No. 1 overall seed: “I think we were (excited when KU came up on TV),” Lucas said. “There was still a little bit of doubt, but I think that we’ve shown a lot and that’s a great accomplishment. That’s where you want to be. Until it officially gets announced, you just never know. Just like we thought we were in the Midwest, we ended up in the South. We all were pretty comfortable with our resumé and whatnot, and it was just confirmed when we saw that we were the number one overall.

“I mean, going to the tournament, there’s no better position to be in. So now it’s just about taking that and everybody starting fresh now and it’s just about going and taking it game by game and advancing in the tournament,” Lucas added.

First Round

16 FGCU (20-13)

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Injury update Kansas coach Bill Self said Frank Mason III (foot, hip injuries) is “fine.”

“We’re nicked up, but who is not nicked up after you do something for four or five months straight every day?” Self said.

“We’ll get our batteries recharged. You know, Saturday, Devonté (Graham) and Frank played a lot of minutes (in Big 12 title win over West Virginia), and Wayne (Selden Jr.) did, too.

And Perry (Ellis) played a lot, too, those four did. But today off and tomorrow light. I can’t imagine why we wouldn’t have our legs back under us by Tuesday.”

Tues., 5:40 p.m.

Tues., 8:10 p.m.

11 Vanderbilt (19-13)

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Fri., 1:45 p.m.

Fri., 3 p.m.

15 CSU Bakersfield (24-8)

15 Middle Tenn. (24-9) AP

Keegan

I know that, as the crow flies, Louisville is three miles closer to Lawrence than Chicago is, but Kansas is a Midwest school and has a huge alumni base in Chicago. Send Virginia to Louisville, Kansas to Chicago. That makes for a shorter trip for Virginia.

It’s as if the committee felt guilty about giving

Michigan State a No. 2 seed when the Spartans clearly deserved a No. 1 and made up for it with a trip to Chicago. Why not make the Spartans the top seed in the West?

“I thought, you know, if you are the No. 1 overall seed, it seems like to me there’s a lot of good teams in that particular region,” Kansas coach

Bill Self said of the South.

“Of course, there are going to be good teams throughout all the brackets, but I would say that the South region would be thought of by most of the pundits as being as strong as any of them, I would think.”

No question.

Kansas still is the smartest pick in the South

to send to the Final Four, but it’s no easy road.

Well before the brackets were released, I wrote a story on 12 teams that had a shot to win it all. Five of those teams were sent to the East region, four to the South, three to the Midwest, and not one of them to the West. Strange, strange bracket.

Comment: Inconsistenat the controls, the Spartans have a great shot at cy plagued one of the nation’s youngest teams, but reaching the Final Four. when the Wildcats were North Carolina good, they were really Kenpom.com regular- good, scoring their 13 SEC season rankings: regular-season victories by Overall: 5 an average of 18.8 points.

Offensive efficiency: 5 Backcourt tandem of 5-9 Defensive efficiency: Tyler Ulis and 6-5 fresh29 man Jamal Murray capable of taking over games. Keep Experience factor: 136 these regular-season freeAverage height: 55 Coach (NCAA tourney throw percentages in mind record): Roy Williams when Kentucky leads late (65-23, .739, seven Final in games: Derek Willis Fours, two national titles) (.920), Ulis (.850), Murray Comment: Among (.779). players never mentioned in national player-of-the- Arizona Kenpom.com regularyear discussions, 6-foot9, 228-pound senior for- season rankings: Overall: 13 ward Brice Johnson is the Offensive efficiency: 20 best. In order, Michigan Defensive efficiency: State’s Valentine, Oklahoma’s Buddy Hield and 25 Experience factor: 77 LSU’s Ben Simmons have Average height: 22 stronger cases, but it is Coach (NCAA tourney interesting that Johnson tends to be overlooked record): Sean Miller (17-8, on a national scale. He’s .680) Comment: It takes six averaging a doubledouble (16.8 points, 10.8 consecutive victories to rebounds) and abused win the national title. AriDuke for 18 points and zona had an early eight21 rebounds in his final game winning streak and regular-season game. won six in a row late.

Statistically, senior point But do the Wildcats have guard Marcus Paige has enough firepower to surregressed throughout his vive and advance? Probcareer, but he’s capable of ably not, unless talented putting together a strong freshman guard Allonzo Trier, ranked No. 12 in tourney run. the Class of 2016 by RiKentucky vals, catches fire and noKenpom.com regular- body can put him out. season rankings: Indiana Overall: 8 Kenpom.com regularOffensive efficiency: 8 Defensive efficiency: season rankings: Overall: 9 52 Offensive efficiency: 5 Experience factor: 335 Experience factor: 163 Average height: 169 Average height: 100 Coach (NCAA tourCoach (NCAA tourney ney record): John Calipari (47-15, .758, six Final record): Tom Crean (9-8, Fours, one national title) .529, one Final Four)

Comment: Terrific senior point guard Yogi Ferrell (.421 three-point shooter) grows better by the year and joins sophomore James Blackmon Jr. (.463 from three) to space the floor and create room for explosive sophomore Tory Williams to operate and punctuate drives with high-flying dunks.

The Hoosiers have enough complementary players surrounding the three scorers that a deep run seems possible.

Comment: They play at a slow pace that can frustrate opponents, a pace not many elite teams employ. Senior Malcolm Brogdon gives the Cavaliers a go-to guy with a soft shooting touch from long range (.411) and the free-throw line (.878).

One problem: Virginia won’t be able to play at John Paul Jones Arena, where Cavs have 35-1 record in past four seasons.

aggressively, and when they don’t gather their misses, they immediately try to steal the ball back with in-your-face pressure. Physical team with enough toughness to win when whistles go the other way. Went 6-3 in Big 12 road games.

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Plus, isn’t the reward for earning the No. 1 overall spot supposed to be staying in one’s own region, unless there exist compelling geographic reasons to do otherwise?

The Insurgent Lane Xavier Kenpom.com regularseason rankings: Overall: 14 Offensive efficiency: 19 Defensive efficiency: 39 Experience factor: 236 Average height: 54 Coach (NCAA tourney record): Chris Mack (6-5, .545) Comment: Edmund Sumner, a 6-5, 183-pound guard, has the quickness and weight of a sub6-footer and the inconsistency of a freshman.

For example, he totaled 41 points in leading Muskateers to consecutive victories against Georgetown and Villanova and then totaled five points vs. Seton Hall and Creighton.

Virginia Kenpom.com regularseason rankings: Overall: 1 Offensive efficiency: 9 Defensive efficiency: 6 Experience factor: 92 Average height: 45 Coach: Tony Bennett (6-5, .545)

The Fringe Lane California Kenpom.com regularseason rankings: Overall: 22 Offensive efficiency: 51 Defensive efficiency: 12 Experience factor: 257 Average height: 2 Coach (NCAA tourney record): Cuonzo Martin (2-1, .667) Comment: Tallest team in tournament has a starting lineup that stands 6-5, 6-6, 6-7, 6-11, 7-1. It’s tough to score on them near the hoop because of all that length.

Villanova Kenpom.com regularseason rankings: Overall: 4 Offensive efficiency: 12 Defensive efficiency: 7 Experience factor: 187 Average height: 98 Coach (NCAA tourney record): Jay Wright (1412, .538, one Final Four) Comment: When most think of Villanova, quick guards with long shooting range come to mind, and the Wildcats do have depth in that area, but it’s Iowa State Kenpom.com regular6-11 senior center Daniel Ochefu who is this team’s season rankings: Overall: stealth factor. He blocks Offensive efficiency: 2 shots, rebounds and Defensive efficiency: steadily has progressed 111 as a scorer.

Experience factor: 4 West Virginia Average height: 84 Kenpom.com regularCoach (NCAA tourney season rankings: record): Steve Prohm (1-1, Overall: 6 .500) Offensive efficiency: 25 Comment: The expeDefensive efficiency: 4 rienced Cyclones have Experience factor: 177 enough offensive fireAverage height: 89 power to beat anyone in Coach (NCAA tourney the tournament field and record): Bob Huggins (29- defend poorly enough to 21, .580, two Final Fours) lose to any team. They Comment: Playing the play a fun brand of basunconventional Moun- ketball and have lost taineers for the first time enough this year that can rattle opponents. they won’t carry the burNot many teams crash den of high expectations the offensive boards as onto the floor with them.

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Doing their home work

Area fire chiefs say threat worse in recent years

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THE OLD RHODY DELAHUNTY COMPLEX, 1106 Rhode Island St., is pictured above left in 2014 after it was condemned by the city. The house is pictured above right this month with restoration work nearly complete.

BELOW: Hernly Associates has transformed the house into an office space.

Once hidden and dilapidated house now restored

By Nikki Wentling Twitter: @nikkiwentling

Two adjoining lots at the southeast corner of 11th and Rhode Island streets are almost unrecognizable from what they were a year ago — just as architects Stan Hernly and Mike Myers had planned.

When Hernly, Myers and six others purchased the 145-yearold property at 1106 Rhode Island St. in 2014, the land had just been rid of a dozen-or-so Packard cars that were “sitting on their bellies in the mud” for years, Myers said.

A fence and 8-foot shrubs kept a sagging, 90-year-old barn and rotting truck shed out of sight.

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A home on the adjacent lot, built in 1871, was breaking off from its 1890s addition.

About 14 months after the group started restoration — a process that took the approval of state and national historic

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agencies, as well as five city boards — the property is almost finished, and Hernly wants people to see it.

“It’s been behind a fence and it’s been overgrown for so long that when people would drive by you just wouldn’t notice it,” Hernly said. “It was so covered over. So, part of what we’re trying to do is… as people are heading east on 11th Street, it’s really going to be a prominent thing to see.”

The site is part of the North Rhode Island Residential Historic District, and it’s on the National Register of Historic Places.

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With the first significant rainfall in more than a month, Mike Baxter showed up for work last Wednesday anticipating a rare quiet day.

“There are never any guarantees, but today is a good day to burn,” the Wakarusa Township Fire Department fire chief said. “The ground is moist, so things won’t get carried away.”

Traditionally, this is

the start of a busy time for Douglas County’s nine township fire departments as dead vegetation, low humidity and near-constant Kansas winds make wildfires an almost daily concern. Baxter said the threat has grown worse in recent years.

“One of the things we’ve seen over the past few years is it’s been drier,” he said. “This winter, we had no real snow cover.

In the first eight days of March, we’ve had 10 grass fires. We’re having more countywide. We’re on pace to outdo 2014, which was a record year for grass fires in northeast Kansas.”

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VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS from Kentucky Township Fire Department of Jefferson County watch a controlled burn at East 900 and North1800 roads on Friday. Area fire chiefs are saying that the threat of out-of-control grass fires has grown worse in recent years.

Shorthanded 911 center vital link in county’s emergency response RANDY ROBERTS has been the director of the Emergency Communication Center for one year.

The center is located at the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center, 111 E. 11th St.

By Elvyn Jones Twitter: @ElvynJ

With 23 years on the job, Edna Brubaker has developed a way to cope with the stress of her job as shift supervisor with Douglas County Emergency Communications.

“I don’t take my job home with me,” she said. “I like to go home and relax and not think about work.”

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Her boss, Douglas County Emergency Communications Director Randy Roberts, said Brubaker’s temperament and approach have made her the second-longest serving dispatcher in the department.

It’s a job that is not for everyone, he said. Many can’t deal with the stress of handling life-and-death incidents, the tension of providing response details to the 20 agencies the

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JESSE K. MCCOY Jesse Keith McCoy age 23, of Wellsville was called home March 10, 2016.

Funeral services will be 9:30AM, Wednesday, March 16, 2016 at the Wellsville United Methodist Church with visitation the evening before from 7­9, also at the church. Interment will follow services in the Agenda Cemetery, Agenda, Kansas.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Jesse McCoy Memorial Fund in care of Wilson’s, PO Box 486, Wellsville, KS 66092.

He was born August 6, 1992, in, Lander, Wyoming to Jason and Stacie McCoy and passed away at his home in Lawrence, Kansas.

He attended Wellsville Schools, Wellsville, Kansas, K­12 and was part or the graduating class of 2010.

He continued his education at, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, Kansas and the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. He was currently employed as a sales representative for AT&T, in Lawrence, Kansas.

You could frequently find Jesse on Thursday nights at Brothers with the regulars from the Reserve Apartments, sporting his “Onesie” while playing video games, working out at the gym or in this Jeep cruising while listening to Kenny Chesney with his best friend Addie and anyone else he could pickup to ride along.

Jesse was blessed with many friends and family that loved him. This was evident though the many activities he was involved in. He played with the

Legends soccer team in Kansas City in younger years. After high school he participated in various sports intermural including football, soccer, track and volleyball with his friends.

Jesses’ cherished his time with grandparents at the lake.

He was known for his unique personality and always knowing when someone needed his support.

This was apparent in many ways.

His infectious smile was contagious; his generosity was shown in his acts of kindness. He provided homeless people as well as his friends and family with various forms of support. He was good about reminding friends and family he loved them every time he saw them.

He is survived by his mother, Stacie McCoy, Bella Vista, Arkansas , father, Jason McCoy and wife Lisa, Centeron, Arkansas, siblings Joshua Christian , Jacob Tyler, Christina Caylie, and Joseph Eugene and special friend Sydnee Edwards, and pet dog, Addie, Lawrence, Kansas.

Maternal Grandparents Elden and Pam Ninemire, Ozawkie, Kansas and Paternal Grandparents Rosemary Weaver, Riverton, Wyoming.

Maternal Great Grandparents Clarence and Mary Alice Havel, Agenda, Kansas. Many college friends, Aunts and Uncles and cousins.

He is preceded in death by his paternal grandfather, Charles R. McCoy. Please sign this guestbook at Obituaries.

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The Kansas Fire Marshal’s office reports there were 8,483 wildfires in the state in 2014 and 190 in Douglas County. The number fell statewide to about 6,000 in 2015.

The northeast Kansas grass fire season usually starts in mid-March and runs through mid-April, said Eric Ward, fire planning specialist for the Kansas Forest Service.

“It started early this year and hit with a vengeance,” he said. “We started getting reports of large fires of more than 300 acres in mid-February.”

Although grass fires that large have not yet been reported in Douglas County, there have been big wildfires nearby, Baxter said. On Feb. 27, a fire just across the Leavenworth County line raged through 500 acres before it was brought under control. And on March 6 a fire in western Shawnee County spread through 4,000 acres, he said.

There is one other factor in the number of seasonal wildfires, Baxter and other township fire chiefs agree. Too often, rural property owners start fires on days they shouldn’t.

“I know last weekend alone, we ran eight grass fires,” said Eudora Township Fire Chief Duke Verhelst. “All those were accidentally set. Somebody decided it was a good day to burn trash or brush or carelessly threw a cigarette from a car.”

Randy DeMersseman, chief of the Palmyra Township Fire Department, said of the 38 fires his department responded to last March, 36 were grass fires. Nearly all were fires property owners set that got out of control.

Burning of the previous year’s growth or crops is a long-standing agricultural practice and indispensable in preserving the local tall-grass prairie, Ward said. Controlled burning helps keep cedars and invasive plants from spreading through pastures and gives spring growth a better chance to thrive, he said.

Those benefits come with risks, even for those experienced in controlled agricultural burns.

Problems arise in counties with large rural commuter populations in which residents attempt controlled burns but lack the experience or equipment to control them, Ward said.

On the other hand, Douglas County does benefit from having wellfunded rural fire departments outfitted with equipment developed to fight wildfires, Ward said.

The Wakarusa department has three fourwheel drive pickups called brush rigs, which can get off rural roads and close to fires. The Eudora and Palmyra township departments each have two of the trucks equipped with small water tanks, hoses and firefighting tools. The Wakarusa department also has an ATV equipped with a

water tank that allows access to even more remote terrain, Baxter said.

Traditional trucks are also deployed. Baxter said tankers were deployed to keep the brush rigs filled with water, and pumper trucks are stationed near residences and important outbuildings to keep them out of danger, Baxter said.

Although the threat is real, structure fires are rare during out-of-control burns. Verhelst said he knew of only one outbuilding lost this year, and it was a dilapidated shed of small value.

Another big asset for the departments in fighting is their web of mutual aid agreements, which ensures adequate resources will be available.

“Mutual aid is a very key part for all volunteer fire departments,” Verhelst said. “We’re all volunteer departments, and people have lives and families. You don’t know who will be available.”

It can involve a lot of moving pieces, especially when fires start popping up all over the map, Verhelst said. On March 6 for the large Leavenworth County fire, his department sent out a brush rig to help there and another to cover at a Wakarusa station, which had trucks helping with other fires.

As equipment has changed, so have tactics used to control wildfires.

DeMersseman said his department is now taking a more defensive approach through use of backfires and other techniques that save wear and tear on equipment, he said. For example, he said firefighters used to place an emphasis on preventing fires from reaching tree lines, because of the danger that a brush fire could become a timber fire.

“We’ve found fires burn slower in timber because the trees knock the wind down,” he said.

“We’ve introduced new techniques to where we’re now looking to take advantage of timber.”

The technique makes use of backpacks filled with water and foam, which quickly suppress fires in tree lines, DeMersseman said.

Despite all the equipment at the rural departments’ disposal, controlling wildfires still requires a lot of hard work with shovels, rakes and chainsaws, the chiefs said. That manual response in close contact to flames puts firefighters in danger of dehydration, heat exhaustion, falls in rough terrain and, of course, burns.

“There’s countless cases of firefighters getting caught in fires with sudden wind shifts,” DeMersseman said. “It can be just as tragic as structure fires. Things happen quickly, like with all fires.”

There isn’t enough awareness of the potential danger among rural property owners or enough compliance with the county’s open burn policies, the chiefs said.

The county’s rural burn policy allows open burning provided property owners notify the county dispatch center and the

L awrence J ournal -W orld local fire department of their intentions and monitor the fire. Burning is prohibited on days when wind speeds are greater than 15 mph or when the National Weather Service’s daily rangeland fire index for northeast Kansas is listed as either very high or extreme.

Residents wanting to schedule a controlled burn should call the Douglas County Emergency Communications Center at 843-0250. Dispatchers can provide numbers of local rural fire departments and information on whether conditions are right for burning.

Too often, both those requirements are ignored, especially on weekends when the majority of wildfires occur.

“People are home on the weekends,” Baxter said. “They have time to conduct their burns that can get out of control.”

There can be penalties for ignoring the county policy, but neither Baxter nor Douglas County District Attorney Charles Branson could recall any case in which a property owner was cited. Fire department personnel would have to make such misdemeanor citations, Branson said.

The more likely outcome is a lecture to the embarrassed property owner who started a burn on a day that trained and well-equipped fire departments struggle to control fires.

“People need to understand it is very easy to get over your head,” DeMersseman said. “People say it’s just grass fires, but seldom do they move slowly. They are fastmoving fires that can consume everything in their path — structures, livestock or vehicles.”

— County reporter Elvyn Jones can be reached at 832-7166 or ejones@ljworld.com.

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A KALEIDOSCOPE OF MONARCH BUTTERFLIES CLING TO TREE BRANCHES in the Piedra Herrada sanctuary, near Valle de Bravo, Mexico, in this Jan. 4, 2015, file photo.

Monarch population increase encouraging, but not enough

By Sara Shepherd Twitter: @saramarieshep

This winter’s big rebound of Mexico’s monarch butterfly population is good news, Kansas University’s resident butterfly expert says, but it hardly means we don’t need to worry about the monarchs anymore.

“We’re still dealing with loss of habitat that is quite significant, which means population is going to go down unless we do something,” said Orley “Chip” Taylor, professor in the department of ecology and evolutionary biology and director of the KU-based Monarch Watch program.

Mexico provides the official winter monarch count, but Taylor makes his own predictions based on monarch activity he sees in the United States during the preceding summer.

Taylor said as early as last May he predicted a resurgence but “backpedaled” in July because he didn’t see the number of butterflies he thought he should in June.

“When we got into August it was really very clear that my earlier prediction was going to be correct, that the population was going

Chip Taylor to double,” Taylor said. “And it really did more than double.”

Monarchs winter south of the border, and in December the area they covered in the mountains west of Mexico City was more than three and a half times greater than the same time last year, according to a recent Associated Press report.

The monarchs — which clump so densely in the forests that they’re counted by area instead of individual insects — covered 10 acres this winter, compared with 2.8 acres in 2014 and a record-low 1.7 acres in 2013, according to the Associated Press.

At their peak in 1996, monarchs covered as much as 44 acres.

Scientists blame major habitat loss for the monarchs’ decline,

particularly deforestation including illegal logging in Mexico.

Monarch Watch, online at monarchwatch.org, has an initiative to help restore the migratory butterflies’ habitat in the United States by planting milkweed, specifically milkweed that’s the right species for the region where it will be planted.

Taylor said Monarch Watch hopes to distribute 200,000 to 300,000 milkweed plants this year.

Since launching three years ago, Monarch Watch’s milkweed plant distribution program grew from 22,000 to 59,000 to 109,000 plants, he said.

Annual weather patterns also affect monarch population, and some years are more favorable for reproduction than others, Taylor said.

But of the two factors, habitat loss will result in loss of the monarch population long-term.

“We’re going to lose it unless we work really hard to save it,” Taylor said.

cores of advocates for public education funding will converge on the Statehouse this week to draw attention to their agenda, but conservatives in the Kansas Legislature are already several steps ahead of them, with a number of education-related bills lined up for hearings and final action.

Advocates organized under the umbrella group Game On for Kansas Schools spent their weekend in what has become an annual ritual, marching through drizzle and rain from Johnson County, Emporia and Manhattan, with plans to converge on the Statehouse today.

The drama takes place against the backdrop of a February Kansas Supreme Court ruling that some of the changes lawmakers made to school funding last year violate the Kansas Constitution’s requirement that

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state funding for schools be distributed equitably among all the state’s school districts.

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Eudora schools may increase technology

The second part of the plan would redistribute the existing mobile An initiative to expand cart fleet from the high technology in Eudora school to the middle and classrooms that has been elementary schools usunderway for years may ing a process the district be gaining some traction. has called “waterfalling.”

— KU and higher ed reporter Eudora School Board Additionally, some iPads Sara Shepherd can be reached at 832-7187 or President Eric Votaw said would be distributed to sshepherd@ljworld.com. the time is right to move the pre-K, kindergarten forward on plans the and first grades. board has been discuss“We already own all ing for a few years now. of that stuff,” Long said.

The board voted unani- “We’re just moving chess mously at its meetpieces around.” ing Wednesday to Votaw said he allow bids for a stufrom its east and west recording your experiand other board dent technology iniwalls, while those of a ences through art,” she members have rotating featured artsaid. “We are a place for tiative spearheaded visited other Kanby Ron Long, the ist are displayed on the people to come and be sas schools to ask district’s technol- SCHOOLS questions, see how north wall. Her goal is creative.” ogy director. to share the peace and Revive also has soap, these types of plans The schools curpurpose she found in art chocolate and other look in practice and with others. handmade items for sale, rently function on a cart- learn more about the outbased model, meaning all comes of putting a device “We call ourselves a which are produced by laptops are stored on mo- in each student’s hand. studio,” she said. “We local artisans, as well as want to make art accesantiques and refurbished bile carts that are shared “Our concerns were albetween classrooms. In leviated because there are sible to everyone.” furniture.

Long’s plan, the district really quite simple soluRevive does that “That’s my husband,” would first purchase tions to those problems,” through workshops she said. “He can’t get enough new Dell Chrome- he said. “... We could see on art journals, Bible away from antiques.” book laptops to bring Eu- hands-down that once journals and paint-andlll dora High School to a 1-to- these devices go into the wine gatherings. Powell Main Street Eudora 1 student-to-device ratio. students’ hands, each stuuses the word “workhas embraced yoga, or at Each of the approximately dent becomes fully enshop” instead of class to least that’s the opinion 460 high school students gaged in each and every emphasis the relaxed, would have his or her own classroom, whereas that stress-free atmosphere of of Eudora Yoga Center owner Mary Kirkendoll. laptop to bring to school has not really ever been the the gatherings. every day and use for “It’s just like written Please see ROUNDUP, page 5A homework in the evenings.

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Veronica Powell, the owner of the business at 914 Ames St., said Oct. 25 was the birthday of a son who died in a 2014 fatal vehicle accident in western Kansas. The “Revive” part of the name reflects the new life she found after the loss.

“I picked up a paintbrush again,” she said.

“My husband said he didn’t know I was an artist, because I hadn’t done any painting since we were married.”

The studio, which opened Feb. 22, grew

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“Not very long ago, we had a dispatcher talk a caller through a childbirth.

It’s amazing what they get involved in and the help they provide. They take a lot of pride in that.”

That room Roberts referred to is the new 911 center in the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center, 111 E. 11th St., where the dispatch operation moved to in August 2014.

There, dispatchers answer from 650 to 900 daily 911 calls.

Roberts said those taking the incoming calls don’t just take information, relay it to the proper responders and move on.

They stay with callers until emergency responders arrive at the scene, balancing the need to stay calm as they gather information and give instructions with providing what reassurance and support they can through a phone connection.

“That has to be part of the click,” Roberts said of a dispatcher’s connection with a caller. “They are trained to be able to extract

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The center Kirkendoll opened last August at 706 Main St. has been well received, a development that seems to surprise its owner.

“I tried to go in with no expectations,” she said. “It seemed like a terrible business model.

I wrote a business plan.

I kind of made it up. I go and teach, and people like it.”

A Kansas University graduate and longtime yoga practitioner, Kirkendoll moved back to the area with the thought of opening a yoga center, only to find

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or, option B, come up with some other formula and provide to the court a record of evidence showing why that new formula meets the Kansas Constitution’s requirement for equitable funding.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, House and Senate budget committees will hold hearings on competing bills that aim to do just that. On Tuesday, the House will consider a bill aimed at addressing the first option, one that House

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case in the history of education, as far as I can tell.”

Votaw visited Spring Hill Middle School and said the two things that stuck out to him were teachers’ ability to make sure each student was engaging in real-time by having them type responses throughout the class, and how they could record lectures ahead of time if they knew there would be a substitute the next day.

“Those are two of tens of different advantages we saw right away that came from having that device available,” Votaw said.

As with most initiatives in Kansas school districts right now, funding is an issue, and 466 laptops isn’t a minor purchase. Based on a ballpark estimate from numbers in a previous purchase, Long’s plan lists a possible total of around $140,000, though

information. They make callers repeat information to hopefully clean up any mistakes or confusion.”

Roberts started as director of the department a year ago, after a short retirement from a 27-year career in law enforcement. After three years with the Lawrence Police Department, he spent the rest of his law enforcement career with the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, the last 17 years as a sergeant.

His days in law enforcement go back to the time when the county and city of Lawrence maintained separate dispatch call centers in the same room, Roberts said.

It was a time he and other sheriff’s personnel would fill in on the 911 console when needed.

The big change since his part-time stints at the console was the consolidation of county and city emergency communications in 1994. At that time, the dispatch center also started serving all city and township law enforcement and fire departments in Douglas County, plus Kansas Highway Patrol and Kansas Wildlife and Parks.

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We had a dispatcher talk a caller through a childbirth. It’s amazing what they get involved in and the help they provide. They take a lot of pride in that.”

— Randy Roberts, director of Emergency Communications Center

Another big change has been the arrival of cellphones, which allow dispatchers to get much more direct information from the scene of accidents, fires or other emergencies, Roberts said.

He also touted the county’s Smart 911 program, which allows county residents to put profiles online, which pop up with 911 calls. The profiles are a valuable resource to dispatchers and can provide information that the caller might not be able to provide in emergency situations.

“I would encourage everyone to go online at smart911.com and fill out a profile,” Roberts said.

“It’s free. You can put as much or as little on the profile as you want.”

To meet the call demand, Emergency Communications has two shifts per day, one starting at 6 a.m. and the other at 6 p.m. The department

maintains two crews for each shift with dispatchers working a schedule of two days on, two days off, two days on and three days off, Roberts said.

The new center has amenities that make the dispatchers’ days more comfortable. The new center has windows along one wall, flooding the room with natural light and providing a treetop view of Rhode Island Street. Dispatchers also now have consoles they can adjust to sitting or standing positions, a must for staying comfortable throughout the long shift, Roberts said.

Each shift requires a minimum of five dispatchers, but he tries to have six, Roberts said.

Right now, that’s difficult because the department is understaffed.

“We’re allocated 29 dispatchers,” he said. “We’re down six. We have open applications right now.

the Lawrence market saturated. She then took a drive to Eudora and fell in love with the community and downtown.

Kirkendoll said she also found the downtown business community very supportive, and was fortunate to connect with someone who was about to close her business at 706 Main St. “It’s slowly building,” she said of the center.

“The students we have enrolled are serious about learning yoga.

That’s important to me.”

She practices ashtanga vinyasa yoga, which “takes things to the edge,” Kirkendoll said.

A list of the full range of classes and workshops offered can be found at eudorayogacenter.com.

There are beginner classes and those for the more experienced.

“A full session is an hour and a half,” she said.

“It’s really strenuous. It takes time to work up to that, so most people start with the introductory class.”

The center just added workshops that reflect her interest in Zen Buddhism. A Lawrence Zen master will help with the classes, which combine sitting Zen meditation with yoga postures, Kirkendoll said.

She said she has multiple testimonials about how her yoga classes have helped people with chronic back and hip problems, the aches and pains of aging and stress relief. Her experience in

Eudora has been transformational for her, too.

“Seven months ago if you would have asked me my profession, I would have said a musician who did yoga on the side,” she said. “Now, that has swapped.”

Those residents of the Eudora Township Fire Department living within 5 miles of the fire station at 310 E. 20th St. could see their homeowner insurance rates drop. Eudora Township Fire Chief Duke Verhelst said the department recently received an upgraded rating that improved its ISO score from 10 to 5. Insurance companies consider ISO ratings when figuring

Appropriations Committee Chairman Ron Ryckman says would cost about $37 million next year. And on Wednesday, the Senate Ways and Means Committee will consider an option B plan, which merely redistributes money already appropriated.

As an added incentive, the court has placed a veritable Sword of Damocles over the Legislature’s head by threatening to close public schools on July 1 if the Legislature doesn’t come up with a satisfactory answer to options A or B. And that may be the focus of discussion Wednesday when the Senate Ways and Means

Committee holds hearings on another newly introduced bill — so new, in fact, that it didn’t yet have an assigned bill number and its contents hadn’t yet been published by the weekend — which deals with the subject of “court ordered redistribution of school district funds.”

Lawmakers are now entering the final twoweek stretch of the 2016 regular legislative session. They are tentatively scheduled to adjourn March 25, at which point they will break for about a month and return in late April for the final “wrap-up” session.

Here’s a look at some other education-related

issues coming up in committees this week: l Today, the Senate Ways and Means Committee could take action on Senate Bill 499, requiring school districts to strategically source specific spend categories through the Department of Administration. l Also today, the House Education Committee takes up Senate Bill 136, which passed the Senate last year, limiting the subjects of contract negotiations between school districts and teachers unions; and House Bill 2486, requiring school districts to get approval from a legislative review board before they can qualify

he noted that number could definitely change.

However, Votaw said the influx of cash from the district’s 2014 sale of the Nottingham property at 14th and Church streets to the city of Eudora, at an approximate total of $850,000, means that the district could feasibly fund this plan right now.

“Honestly, I don’t think we’d be in a position to jump-start this process if we didn’t have that influx of funds as a result of the sale of the property,” he said.

After the initial purchase, the board would also have to budget to sustain the program.

Long said enrollment continues to increase, and the district’s biggest hurdle would be adding more devices to keep up.

Votaw said there are some options for that, as well. He said if the board allotted a small portion of its capital outlay funds and collected an ongoing technology fee from each student, those two revenue streams would help sustain the program

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I, personally, as the tech director in the education space do think that students that do not have equitable access to technology throughout the day have a disadvantage over students in other districts that do.”

— Ron Long, Eudora Schools technology director

going forward.

Long said reducing the student-to-device ratio is in the district’s strategic plan, and it’s one of his primary goals. A 1-to-1 ratio “gets rid of the haves and have-nots,” he said.

“I, personally, as the tech director in the education space do think that students that do not have equitable access to technology throughout the day have a disadvantage over students in other districts that do,” he said.

Starting with the 1-to1 ratio at the high school will help to address one aspect of college and career readiness, which has been a focus statewide, Votaw said.

Eudora is not the only Douglas County district grappling with a growing need for technology.

Lawrence schools have focused on improving their device-to-student ratios this year, and in February, district officials said funds have been budgeted to ensure any students who need access to laptops or Wi-Fi hotspots will have them, starting next school year.

Other than a few questions about logistics, Votaw said feedback he’s heard from parents and teachers has been “overwhelmingly positive.” “(The teachers) were ready to go when the option was given to them; there wasn’t a whole lot of hesitation as the board deliberated through this, and we wanted to make sure we had buy-in from the teachers,” he said. “... They all had good ideas in mind already

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I’m hoping to fill two positions in the next 30 days and it would be nice to have another two or three ready to go in the next six to eight months.”

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“They go out and do ride-alongs with each agency to get a feel of the geography,” he said. “If there’s a glitch in the sysAlex Hothan, tem, they have to underserver, stand the geography and Topeka override the mistake.”

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premium rates.

“That’s a very big improvement,” Verhelst said. “It considers how the station is manned, the type of equipment the township board allows us to buy, our training and our mutual aid agreements.”

Township homeowners within 5 miles of the station should notify their insurance carrier of the ISO change to get improved rates, Verhelst said. He knew of one department volunteer who learned he would save almost $500 a year on his homeowner’s policy, the chief said.

— This is an excerpt from Elvyn Jones’ Area Roundup column, which appears regularly on LJWorld.com.

for state aid for bond issues.

The Senate Education Committee is also scheduled to work on a school bond review board bill on Thursday. l The House Insurance Committee takes up a bill Thursday that would create a state-based insurance exchange exclusively for retired public employees, many of whom are former teachers, and eliminating their option to continue coverage through the State Employee Health Plan.

— This is an excerpt from Peter Hancock’s Statehouse Live column, which appears on LJWorld.com

how they wanted to implement it, so that helped us sort of come to this point as well.”

Both Long and Votaw said they are optimistic about the plan’s odds.

This week, Long will send out an RFP. He’ll come up with a recommendation for the board’s next meeting, slated for April 14. If the board approves, Long will proceed with ordering the devices, setting them up and having them ready in time for the first full day of the 2016-2017 school year — Aug. 17.

And if not, “we’ll take a step back and basically continue what we’re doing now, which is just making the best use of what we have,” Long said.

The Eudora School Board generally meets at 7 p.m. on the second Thursday of each month at 1310 Winchester Road, Room 108. Board agendas are available online at www.eudoraschools.org.

— Reporter Mackenzie Clark can be reached at 832-7198 or mclark@ljworld.com.

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Seek out the root cause of sisters’ animosity Dear Annie: My oldest and youngest sisters are 10 years apart.

They used to be good friends, but in the past three years, something apparently happened and now they can’t stand to be in the same room together. At family events, the tension is awful. They can’t talk to one another without condescension and sarcasm.

My parents and I are caught in the middle.

Each sister comes to me to complain about the other. I have tried to get them to talk it out or call a truce for the sake of the family, but it continues to get worse.

My oldest sister will invite everyone for dinner except my youngest sister. Then my youngest sister complains to our mother.

Mom is 86 years old and worries constantly

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about her daughters.

My brother wanted to move back home to help with my parents, but he changed his mind because he didn’t want to deal with the bad vibes coming from our other two sisters.

I am so sick of this family feud. Is there anything we can do with these selfish adults? — The Middle Sister Dear Middle Sister: Does anyone know the original cause of this animosity? Sometimes,

‘Bachelor’ winds down season 20 So, season 20 of “The Bachelor” (7 p.m., ABC, TV-PG) all comes down to Ben’s decision between Lauren B. and Jo Jo. After all the candles lit and rose petals strewn, the hot tub clinches and helicopter rides, this season’s most magical moment may have been Ben and Jo Jo’s ankle-deep trot along the beach, pursued by pigs. Memories are made of this.

“The Bachelor: After the F i n a l Rose” (9 p.m., TVPG) follows, for those who just can’t say goodbye.

Cable news tends to report stories breathlessly and insistently, bombarding us with end-of-the-world hysteria before dropping the subject and moving on to another crisis. Few subjects were treated more irresponsibly than the African Ebola outbreak in 2014.

Whatever happened to Ebola?

And what really happened?

HBO presents the short documentaries “Ebola: The Doctors’ Story” (8 p.m.), “Body Team 12” (8:45 p.m.) and “Orphans of Ebola” (9 p.m.). The films cover the outbreak over an eight-month period, from its rapid onslaught to its exhaustion, with a focus on the bravery of individual health care providers and the difficulties of coordinating a rapid international response with local doctors and clinics. “Orphans” shows what it’s like to pick up the pieces of a society ravaged by the cruel and random harvest of mass death.

Cable news has hop-scotched over a dozen crises in the intervening months, but Ebola’s toll in West Africa is still being felt.

“Body Team 12” was nominated for an Academy Award in the best documentary short category. That Oscar was won by “A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness,” which aired on HBO last week.

Desperation and dealmaking take center stage as numbers dwindle in the conclusion of the compelling 2015 U.K. adaptation of Agatha Christie’s “And Then There Were None” (8 p.m., Lifetime).

Viewers who missed “Part One” (6 p.m., Lifetime) last night can catch up.

Now streaming on Acorn, “Janet King” stars Marta Dusseldorp (“A Place to Call Home”) as a prosecutor who returns from maternity leave to face a gruesome trial.

Tonight’s other highlights

Kara just isn’t herself now

that kryptonite’s in town on “Supergirl” (7 p.m., CBS, TV14).

A hacker taints the blood supply on “Scorpion” (8 p.m., CBS, TV-14).

Operation whack-a-mole on “Blindspot” (9 p.m., NBC, TV-14).

a minor problem can become a major rift because it isn’t dealt with at the time, so it festers.

One common problem with estranged siblings is that they spend years unable to enjoy each other’s company, only to regret it when it’s too late to fix. You might remind your sisters that they could have less time to repair this than they think.

Dear Annie: A while back, I read with interest a letter from “Jungle Jim in Indiana,” regarding the things men should know if their wives become incapable of doing common household tasks. What is good for one is good for the other. Please print my list of things a woman should know if her husband were no longer around, or incapable of doing these things. — Dover, Pennsylvania

JACQUELINE BIGAR’S STARS

For Monday, March 14: This year you open up to many new possibilities on the homefront. You instinctively might cling to what you have known, yet a partner or dear friend offers you so much more. The change might require a huge leap of faith, but you can do it if you so choose.

If you are single, a serious bond could become more of a complication than a pleasure. If you are attached, you might see that your significant other wants to make some lifestyle changes.

The stars show the kind of day you’ll have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult Aries (March 21-April 19) You will encounter your share of controversy. Keep trying to keep the peace. Tonight: Let it go.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) You might be more aware of the repercussions of heading in a certain direction. Tonight: Say “no” to others right now.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Beam in more of what you want. You could be in the middle of controversy. Tonight: You call the shots.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) Let go, and try not to be so concerned. Listen carefully in conversations. Tonight: Vanish while you can.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) You will land where you want to, but you’ll have to jump through several hoops to get

Dear Dover: Thanks.

Here it is: 1. Know how to check the fluids in the car (oil, power steering, brake, windshield washer).

2. Know where the main water shutoff is located in the home in case a pipe bursts.

3. Know where important papers are kept (car titles, insurance papers, deeds, IRA and CD certificates, bonds).

4. Know what to do if the pilot light goes out on the gas stove.

5. Know how to replace the batteries in the smoke detectors/ radon detectors in the home and do it every six months.

6. Know where the fuse box is and how to change a fuse.

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there. Tonight: All smiles.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Others seem to be dealing with other matters instead of coming up with a solid response.

Tonight: In the limelight.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You will be much happier if you take an overview or quickly adopt a philosophical point of view. Tonight: Make an important call.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Unfortunately, a friend can’t seem to hear what you’re trying to say. Tonight: Make nice.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) What is going on with a loved one is simply representative of a changing mood. Tonight: The only answer is “yes.”

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Focus on one task at a time, and you will be less likely to encounter a problem. Tonight: Put your feet up and relax.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Your playfulness easily could be taken as something else. Maintain a sense of humor.

Tonight: Playful, aren’t we?

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) You might have the best intentions to let go of a problem, yet you can’t. Tonight: Be happy that the day has ended.

— The astrological forecast should be read for entertainment only.

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Plan advances It’s great to hear that developers are moving forward on plans for a downtown grocery store.

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ecent confirmation that developers are closing in on an agreement to locate a grocery store in the former Borders bookstore building in downtown Lawrence is welcome news.

Residents of central-city neighborhoods long have lobbied for a downtown Lawrence grocery store. Demand for such a store also is being fed by several new apartment buildings along New Hampshire Street. Other locations have been discussed, but the Borders building at the corner of Seventh and New Hampshire seems best suited for the project. It’s large enough to accommodate a full-service grocery and has more available parking than most downtown sites.

Bill Fleming, an attorney for the development group led by Doug Compton and Mike Treanor, told Lawrence city commissioners at their March 1 meeting that the group expects to have a lease for the property in place within the next six months.

“We’re going to have a grocery store,” Fleming said. “It’s just a question of whether it’s going to be 20,000 square feet or 40,000.”

Developers initially were working with the owners of the local Checkers supermarket to expand into the Borders building, but the group has confirmed it also has been in discussions with the Price Chopper chain about the project.

Regardless of who locates in the Borders property, it’s important that the store has services and prices that are competitive with major supermarkets in other parts of the city. The convenient location of the store will draw many downtown residents, but if they see better prices or services elsewhere, they are likely to make only small purchases at the downtown store and go elsewhere when they have a longer shopping list.

Providing a major amenity like a fullservice grocery store is an important service for neighborhood residents and helps support the residential development that adds vitality and energy to Lawrence’s downtown. Hopefully, the future tenant will have a great business plan that will ensure a successful longterm venture in the Borders location.

‘Peak Trump’ may be approaching Washington — Frequently predicted but never reached, “peak oil” — maximum possible production — has been postponed yet again, this time because of fracking.

“Peak Sanders” was prematurely announced because of persistent underestimations of how underwhelming Hillary Clinton is as a candidate. The Vermont senator’s peak might not arrive soon because his fundraising prowess will allow him to continue campaigning to outlaw fracking.

“Peak Trump” — the apogee before the dwindling — might be approaching for the perhaps bogus billionaire (would a real one bother with fleecing those who matriculate at Trump University?) who purports to prove his business wizardry, colossal wealth and stupendous generosity not by releasing his tax returns but by displaying a pile of steaks. The eventual end of our long national embarrassment might be foreshadowed by Donald Trump’s pattern of doing better among early voters than among “late deciders”: He firmly has those he entranced early; others are more elusive.

If Trump does become acquainted with gravity — no, not intellectual sobriety; nature’s downward tug — it will be for two reasons: The Republican Party, which together with the Democratic Party has framed the nation’s political debate since first running a presidential candidate 160 years ago, is not a flimsy dinghy to be effortlessly commandeered by pirates hostile to

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Mitt Romney’s denunciations and ridicules, reciprocating Trump’s, are not designed to dissuade Trump voters. It is axiomatic that you cannot reason a person out of a position that the person has not been reasoned into.” its purposes. And the lavish media exposure that has fertilized the growth of the weed of Trumpism in the garden of conservatism might still stunt its growth by causing his supporters to have second, or perhaps first, thoughts. A steady diet of his self-adulation can be cloying; even an entertaining boor can become a bore.

Mitt Romney’s denunciations and ridicules, reciprocating Trump’s, are not designed to dissuade Trump voters. It is axiomatic that you cannot reason a person out of a position that the person has not been reasoned into. The adhesive that binds Trumpkins to their messiah can be dissolved by neither facts nor eloquence. Romney and other defenders of Republican

traditions are trying to prevent a stampede to Trump of “Vichy Republicans,” collaborationists coming to terms with the occupation of their party.

If Trump, who thinks the most recent Republican president should have been impeached, is the 2016 nominee, the party’s most recent nominee will not support him. But this through-thelooking-glass scenario need not happen. Ohio’s John Kasich has demonstrated an appeal to people susceptible to the Trump temptation — blue-collar voters in an important manufacturing (and swing) state buffeted by globalization. Ted Cruz offers what many Trumpkins say they want — conservatism with a serrated edge. Trump, however, is all edge and no conservatism, although his shambolic syntax disguises his vacuity.

Trump, who fancies himself the blue-collar billionaire, promises a 45 percent increase in the price of the imports from China that help draw more than 100 million weekly shoppers to Wal-Mart, America’s largest private-sector employer. Sanders, another aspiring savior of the proletariat, promises “socialism,” which he defines as a “revolution” that resembles the status quo — meddlesome economic regulation by a federal government whose budget is 66 percent income redistribution through transfer payments.

Sanders is conducting a self-refuting campaign, the premise of which is that “the billionaire class” of (accord-

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In last week’s Fox News town hall, when asked about Michael Bloomberg, an actual billionaire, deciding not to run for president, Sanders said: Bloomberg is a billionaire, and it is “a bad idea” that “the only people who feel in many ways that they can run for president are people who have so much money.” Which is why Citizens United must be overturned “so all people can run for office, not just people who have a lot of money.” Well.

Sanders does not even understand his white whale, the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision. It ended prohibitions against independent (not coordinated with candidates) political advocacy by corporations and unions. It had nothing to do with what Bloomberg could have done, spend his own money on himself.

Politicians have been doing this since at least 1757, when George Washington supplied voters with 144 gallons of whiskey and other drink, enough to amply lubricate each of the 307 voters he persuaded in winning a seat in Virginia’s House of Delegates. This year, campaign spending on whiskey for voters would be welcomed by them as an anesthetic.

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To the editor: Recently my child and I visited a Lawrence specialty store. While heading home, I was asked, “Mommy, why did that customer have a gun in his holster?”

I hadn’t seen any guns in the store, so I asked some questions. I followed up with management and voiced my concerns.

Then I spoke with fellow parents to understand how they would feel if they were shopping, eating or otherwise spending family time in Lawrence — with a gun staring back at them. None of us could come up with one reason why a private citizen would need to display a gun in a public place where children and families congregate. Furthermore, living in a state where a private citizen (who is not lawfully prohibited from owning a firearm) can do so without any training or licensing frightens us.

I encourage residents who share my concerns to voice them to business owners and managers. The Legislature has created sweeping gun laws that affect the

character of our community.

The reality of firearms in Kansas University buildings next year confounds me.

Private business owners have the ability to post attorney general-approved signs banning firearms. If a guntoting customer is asked to leave and doesn’t comply, he can be charged with trespassing. While our governor and legislators have taken local control over gun laws away from us, we can still lobby local businesses and choose to spend our money where we feel safe and welcome.

Tricia Masenthin, Lawrence

Children’s funds To the editor: After reading about the Kansas Legislature’s plan for pilfering money from children’s programs (called “securitization”), I felt compelled to do the math.

Currently, Kansas kids receive the money from a tobacco settlement that pays at average of $57 million per year and runs through 2025.

That means Kansas kids can expect $570 million by 2025.

The new projected structure would allow a maximum of $50 million per year (that’s a

12 percent cut). Yet even with such a massive funding cut, the Legislature would only have the revenue to fund 80 percent of that budget if securitization occurs (or 70 percent of the current budget).

Obviously the Legislature needs access to money to cauterize the wounds of failed tax strategy and budget bleeding, but there is a cost-benefit to everything, so let’s go back to the numbers. Just last month, the state fell $53 million short of its projected tax revenue. Evidence shows that this will continue, but let’s suppose that it gets better ($25 million per month). At that rate we will have gone through the entire sum of money that was meant to fund children’s programs for a decade in 16 months.

If you are like me and can see the humanity behind numbers you are already appalled, but, to me, the saddest number has yet to be mentioned. As legislators rob from children with no voice in our government, the oldest current recipient of aid through these programs won’t be old enough to vote against this madness until 2028!

Topher Enneking, Lawrence

From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for March 14, 1916: years “At 3 o’clock this ago afternoon a few IN 1916 more than 1,600 votes had been cast in the city primaries and water election in Lawrence.

It was expected that a much heavier vote would be cast before the closing of the polls at 7 o’clock tonight. A pleasant day had been hoped for, but the raw weather prevailing would, it was feared, cut down the vote below what it would have been if the day had been of the sort desired. As far as could be learned today, the opposition to the water plant purchase was not much in evidence today and it was predicted that the proposition would carry by a large majority.”

“Although hampered by lack of funds, the Lawrence women who are engaging in European war relief work will continue their efforts to relieve as far as they are able the urgent need that exists for hospital dressings. From time to time stories from Europe that tell pointedly of that need arrive to encourage them to do their best with limited means.... Owing to the battles raging the hospitals are now filled with thousands of wounded men, and a call has recently come for an enormous quantity of gauze dressings, and the committee’s distributing bureaus are being taxed to their utmost capacity to meet the appalling need.”

“The elm tree pests have an ally in the dry weather, Prof. S. J. Hunter says, and are starting a new offensive on the trees.

The dry weather recently prevailing has dried up the ‘tanglefoot’ on the bands around the elm trees. The moths are still moving up the trees and the dried substance on the bands offers no bar to their progress.

‘If people want to preserve their trees from the ravages of the pest,’ said Professor Hunter today, ‘they should be sure that the sticky substance on the band is kept moist. The trees will not be out of danger until the upward movement of the moths ceases.’”

— Compiled by Sarah St. John

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DATEBOOK 14 TODAY

Lawrence Public Library Book Van, 9-10 a.m., Prairie Commons, 5121 Congressional Circle.

Theatre Camp: “The Kingdom Games,” grades 1-5, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Theatre Lawrence, 4660 Bauer Farm Drive.

Lawrence Public Library Book Van, 10:3011:30 a.m., Presbyterian Manor, 1429 Kasold Drive.

Lawrence Public Library Book Van, 1-2 p.m., Vermont Towers, 1101 Vermont St. Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS), 5:30 p.m., 2712 Pebble Lane.

842-1516 for info.

Lawrence Board of Education meeting, 7 p.m., school district headquarters, 110 McDonald Drive.

Eudora City Commission meeting, 7 p.m., Eudora City Hall, 4 E. Seventh St. Kaw Valley Quilters Guild with speaker Barbara Brackman, 7 p.m., Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vermont St. Maxine Thevenot in concert, 7:30 p.m., First United Methodist Church, 946 Vermont St. Lawrence Tango Dancers weekly práctica, 8-10 p.m., Signs of Life, 722 Massachusetts St. A Great Big World, 7 p.m. doors, 8 p.m. show, Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts St.

Find more information about these events, and more event listings, at ljworld.com/events.

ELECTRONIC RECYCLING & DOCUMENT SHREDDING EVENT — Rain or Shine — The City of Lawrence invites residents & small businesses to recycle unused or obsolete electronic equipment and securely shred documents.

A $20 recycling fee applies per CRT television 27 inches or under, and a $40 fee per CRT television over 27 inches. All rear projection and console televisions will be $50. Cash or check only. No charge for other electronics or document shredding.

Items Accepted: Paper Documents (limit 3 boxes or bags), Computers, Printers, Copiers, Scanners, Fax Machines, Hand Held Devices, Televisions & Small Appliances (Microwaves).

SATURDAY MARCH 19, 2016

9:00AM TO 1:00PM Free State High School north parking lot –4700 Overland Dr.

PUBLIC WORKS

For further information call 832-3030 or visit www.LawrenceRecycles.org

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Rhody Delahunty, who emigrated from Ireland during famine in the 1860s, settled the property in 1871 in an area that was then known as “Merchant’s Row.” According to a history of the property compiled in 1989 by local historian Paul Caviness, the family’s transfer and storage business operated there into the 1930s, and the family stayed until 1964.

Another family owned the two city lots briefly before they were sold in 1965 to Raymond Barland, who had operated a Packard dealership in downtown Lawrence.

The barn and truck shed used by the Delahuntys for their business were then used to store auto salvage.

By 2013, the structures were deteriorating, and the Lawrence City Commission condemned the site. The city then took the property by eminent domain, paid for it, and sought to find someone who would restore it.

That’s when Stan and Joni Hernly, Mike and Nancy C. Myers, Leigh and Elim Myers, Nancy A. Myers and Dennis Brown formed an LLC with the purpose of buying and rehabilitating the complex.

“I live in the neighborhood, and I’ve been driving by it forever. I was interested in it,” Mike Myers said. “Then one day, Stan and I were talking and I said, ‘Maybe we ought to buy it and move our office down here.’ I was kind of joking, but Stan goes, ‘Well, maybe we should.’”

The three-bedroom home is now finished, as is a new two-car carriage house and apartment located directly behind it.

On Thursday, workers were making final improvements to the interior of the barn and truck shed, into which Hernly and Myers will soon move their business, Hernly Associates Inc., from their current location on Massachusetts Street.

The LLC bought the property in 2014 for $90,000 (the city had paid $114,500), and the group has put in about $800,000 in improvements since January 2015.

With unanimous support from the City Commission, Lawrence gave Hernly and the rest of the group a $26,100 development grant for the project and approved an 85 percent, 10-year property tax rebate on the restoration.

The group was the only one to submit a plan when the city requested proposals for the property. Hernly Associates had worked with the Barlands on preservation plans before the family decided to let it go.

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Because Hernly and Myers do preservation consulting in their business, they “had a pretty good bag of tools to get it done,” Myers said.

Besides the big changes — lifting the structures, laying new foundation, replacing some termite-eaten wood in the truck shed — the group has found little ways to improve the property while maintaining pieces of its history. A floor beam from the barn is now a kitchen countertop, and an old window was repurposed as a bathroom mirror. Some limestone from the foundation borders newly laid flowerbeds, and bricks from the historic sidewalk were used as flooring on the home’s back porch.

An old wooden toolbox used by the Barlands remains in the truck shed, which will be a conference room, and the sliding barn doors retained their use.

In the home’s dining room, the old light fixture hangs over a new table, and you can still peek through a burned part of the early flooring.

“There was a wood stove here,” Hernly said, pointing to the spot. “At some point, a log must’ve fallen out and almost burned the place down.”

Hernly said the group is planning an open house once the property is complete, so the city can see its investment.

By then, the group hopes to have photos displayed that show off some of the property’s history and the families who owned it.

“Its bones were really great,” Myers said.

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SYRIA MARKS 5 YEARS OF WAR

Peace talks resume for a weary country John Bacon USA TODAY

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A body is loaded into a van after the attack in the Ivory Coast resort town of Grand-Bassam.

MASSACRE IN IVORY COAST Six militants opened fire Sunday at three beach resort hotels in Grand-Bassam, Ivory Coast, killing 16 people before security forces swept in and killed the attackers, authorities said. The victims included 14 civilians and two soldiers, President Alassane Ouattara said.

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State drone laws could clash with federal policy FAA says patchwork of local statutes could erode safety

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North Dakota prohibits mounting lethal weapons on drones. Arkansas won’t allow remote-controlled aircraft to photograph critical buildings such as power plants and oil refineries.

Michigan bans using drones for hunting — or to harass hunters.

And North Carolina requires commercial drone operators to take a test to ensure they’re familiar with the rules of the road.

These are among state- and city-level laws adopted to regulate the fast-growing world of drones. But these local laws are on a collision course with the Federal Aviation Administration, which contends it controls the airspace and wants to set a single national policy for drones instead of a patchwork of local laws.

FAA’s authority over airspace is unquestioned for safety issues such as keeping drones lower than 400 feet or away from airports, said Troy Rule, an associate professor of law at Arizona State University. Whether that authority extends to issues like privacy is a matter of debate, he said.

The FAA’s authority “still leaves a lot of room for states to act, and they have,” said Stephen Martinko, a former transportation staff member in Congress who is now a government affairs counselor at K&L Gates LLP. “When you start doing that, it gets very complicated.”

Congress ordered the FAA in 2012 to develop rules governing

The Ghost Nighthawk quadcopter drone is displayed at the Thunder Tiger Group booth at CES 2016 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in January.

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Syrian peace talks were set to resume Monday in Geneva as the beleaguered nation prepared to mark the five-year anniversary of its brutal civil war.

A fragile “cessation of hostilities” remained loosely in effect Sunday. Local and global leaders are seeking an end to the conflict that has killed nearly 500,000 people while creating almost 5 million refugees who have fueled a volatile migrant crisis across much of Europe.

The United Nations special envoy for Syria suspended the first round of talks more than a month ago, citing continued violence and lack of humanitarian relief on the ground.

The partial cease-fire that began two weeks ago, however, has allowed for some humanitarian aid to be delivered.

Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday that he was encouraged by the “very significant reduction in violence, maybe 80, 90%” but remained concerned by allegations of violations allegedly committed by the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

Russia has its own complaints, accusing U.S.-backed rebels of shooting down a Syrian warplane Saturday with an anti-aircraft missile. Russia also accuses Turkey of establishing positions across its border in Syria to stave off Kurdish militants.

The U.S.-backed Free Syrian Army has struggled to maintain its positions; an al-Qaeda militant group slammed through northern Syria’s Idlib province over the weekend.

The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the Nusrah Front militant group was making arrests and seizing weapons.

James Piazza, a political science professor at Penn State who specializes in Middle East affairs, said there is “room for a lot of pessimism” as talks resume.

“The United States, its European allies and Saudi Arabia — who is helping to push the interests of anti-Assad forces in Syria — still support the objective of removing the Assad regime,” Piazza said. “Expect to see them continue to demand for a political transition in Syria that will end with the replacement of the Baathist regime. Of course, for the Syrian government and its ally Russia, this is a real non-starter.”

Apple-FBI duel over privacy is playing big at SXSW At interactive festival, it’s one hot topic Jon Swartz @jswartz USA TODAY

AUSTIN The Apple-FBI dust-up is never far from thought at the South by Southwest (SXSW) interactive festival.

From President Obama’s answer to a question on the topic following his keynote speech Friday, to an excoriated rebuke from Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., on

Sunday, the privacy-vs.-national security debate is front, center and in the background here.

“SXSW has been a melting pot of ideas and policy on immigration, cybersecurity, privacy, Internet of Things, international trade and innovation,” says Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash. “This (AppleFBI) case cuts across so many of them.” The case made a brief cameo during a morning panel on cyberbullying at the Online Harassment Summit on Saturday.

“The focus should be on one word: ownership,” said Michelle Dennedy, chief privacy officer at Cisco Systems, one of several tech

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companies that filed an amicus brief in support of Apple this month. “We do not build backdoors into Cisco products.”

The standoff has pitted the tech industry and privacy advocates against the federal government and national security stalwarts. The Department of Justice has requested Apple help hack the contents of an iPhone found in the possession of Syed Farook, one of the shooters in the San Bernardino, Calif., attacks Dec. 2 that left 14 dead.

Apple has called the government’s request unconstitutional, and has requested Congress to enact legislation on encryption.

The two sides are headed to a showdown March 22 in a federal court in California.

Though the fight has mostly been in California and Washington, D.C., Austin became the latest dateline in the dust-up.

Speaking about the case after his SXSW speech Friday, Obama said, “There has to be some concession to the need to get into that information somehow.”

“It was tone deaf,” said Issa, former chairman of the Consumer Electronics Association (now Consumer Technology Association), Sunday. “There’s just no way to create a special key for government that couldn’t also be taken advantage of by the Russians, the Chinese, or others.”

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Sailor arrested on rape charges in Okinawa Prime minister of Japan wants to relocate U.S. base Kirk Spitzer USA TODAY

A U.S. serviceman was arrested Sunday on suspicion of raping a Japanese woman on the island of Okinawa, where delicate negotiations are underway to relocate a controversial U.S. military base.

Navy sailor Justin Castellanos, 24, is accused of taking the woman to his hotel room in the Okinawa capital of Naha and raping her after finding her asleep in the corTOKYO

ridor, Kyodo News service said, quoting police. The woman, in her 40s, was visiting from the island of Kyushu in southern Japan, according to the report.

Castellanos denied the accusation, Kyodo said.

The U.S. military in Okinawa did not immediately respond to a request for more information Sunday.

Rapes and other crimes by U.S. servicemembers on Okinawa have generated widespread protests against the U.S. military presence there. About 25,000 U.S. troops, mostly Marines, are based on Okinawa. It is the largest concentration of U.S. forces in Japan.

Three U.S. servicemen were convicted in 1995 of kidnapping

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and raping a 12-year-old girl on her way home from school in Okinawa. The incident sparked massive protests and led to negotiations to reduce the U.S. military presence on Okinawa. The commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific was forced to resign shortly afterward for making comments that appeared to make light of the incident.

In 2012, two U.S. Navy reservists were given long prison sentences by a Japanese court for stalking and raping a Japanese woman they had met at an Okinawa bar.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s administration has been engaged in a battle to move the U.S. Marine Corps air base at Futenma.

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A large car bomb explosion killed at least 34 people and wounded scores more in the Turkish capital of Ankara on Sunday, the governor’s office said.

The bomb exploded close to bus stops near a park at Kizilay, Ankara’s main square, NTV television reported. The news channel said the explosion occurred as a car slammed into a bus.

Mehmet Muezzinoglu, Turkey’s health minister, said 125 people were wounded, 19 of them seriously. He said 30 of the victims died at the scene, while another perished at hospitals.

The BBC reported that several vehicles at the scene were reduced to burned-out wrecks, including at least one bus.

No group immediately claimed credit for the attack, the BBC reported. Kurdish militants and the Islamic State group have carried out bombings in the city recently.

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into the bus from the force of the explosion,” said Asik, who was injured on his face and arm.

Police sealed off the area and pushed onlookers back, The Associated Press reported, warning there could be a second bomb.

Forensic teams were examining the scene.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was convening an emergency security meeting and President Recep Erdogan, who has been in Istanbul, was briefed on the attack, the newspaper Hurriyet reported. Erdogan was expected to return to Ankara.

The governor’s office said 23 people died at the scene and four died en route to the hospital.

The explosion came just three

weeks after a suicide car bombing in the capital targeted buses carrying military personnel, killing 29 people. A Kurdish militant offshoot of the outlawed Kurdish rebel group the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, claimed responsibility for that attack.

But on Sunday, the Peoples’ Democratic Party, or HDP, issued a statement Sunday saying it shares “the huge pain felt along with our citizens.”

Sunday’s attack came two days after the U.S. Embassy issued a warning about a potential plot to attack Turkish government buildings and housing in one Ankara neighborhood and asked citizens to avoid those areas.

Hundreds of people have been killed in Turkey in renewed fighting following the collapse of the peace process between the government and the PKK in July.

Authorities on Sunday had declared curfews in two towns in the mainly Kurdish southeast region in anticipation of large-scale military operations against PKKlinked militants.

Turkey also has been struck by several bombings in the last year that were blamed on the Islamic State as the government joined efforts led by the U.S. to fight the extremist group in Syria. The deadliest came in October when a peace rally outside Ankara’s main train station killed 102 people.

BERLIN A far right-wing party in Germany won enough votes Sunday to gain seats in three regional elections, a result seen as a major rebuke to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open immigration policy.

The 3-year-old Alternative for Deutschland party, or AfD, won representation in the states of Baden-Wuerttemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate in prosperous southwestern Germany and in Saxony-Anhalt, an economically disadvantaged area in the eastern part of the country, according to results and exit polls broadcast on German state TV. The AfD won 15% of the vote in Baden-Wuerttemberg and 12.6% in Rhineland-Palatinate, according to official results. The party finished second in Saxony-Anhalt with 24%, according to projections by ARD and ZDF television with most districts counted.

Merkel’s center-right Christian Democratic Union party suffered vote-share losses in all three states but remained the largest party in Saxony-Anhalt.

“Voters are turning away in large numbers from the big established parties and voting for our party,” AfD leader Frauke Petry said at an election rally. She added that voters “expect us to be the opposition that there hasn’t been in the German parliament and some state parliaments.”

The AfD is now represented in eight of Germany’s 16 state parliaments.

The nationalist party is highly critical of Merkel’s approach to Europe’s migration crisis. Merkel’s open-door policy allowed more than 1 million asylum seekers to be registered in Germany last year, and she has refused to put a formal cap on new arrivals, a position that has split public opinion.

Sunday’s vote is important because it may indicate how Merkel will do in a national election to be held in 2017.

A top official with Merkel’s party, Peter Tauber, noted recent polls indicate that Merkel’s popularity is rebounding. “This shows that it is good if (Merkel’s party)

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sticks to this course, saying that we need time to master this big challenge,” he said.

Sunday’s results could also be a distraction for Merkel as she tries to build support for a deal with Turkey to stem the flow of migrants trying to reach northern Europe by crossing waters that connect Turkey with Greece.

“German voters punished (Merkel) and her party for her (migrant) policy in a clear and unambiguous way,” said Jens Walther, a politics professor at the University of Dusseldorf.

“The elections in all three states have yielded only one clear winner: the AfD.” The AfD’s strong performance will aggravate tensions between political parties in Germany and make the formation of coalitions more difficult, Walther said.

It will also boost the AfD’s chances of entering the Bundestag, Germany’s national parliament, for the first time next year.

The current German government is ruled by a coalition between Merkel’s party, the Christian Social Union and the center-left Social Democratic Party.

In Baden-Wuerttemberg, the Green Party was projected for the first time to secure enough votes to be the biggest party in a state parliament with 32.5% of the vote, according to the exit polls.

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how drones would share the sky with passenger planes. The first regulation for commercial drones weighing up to 55 pounds is expected in June.

The FAA in December published a statement asserting its congressional authority to regulate use, management and efficiency of the national airspace. A Senate bill introduced Wednesday would restate that supremacy of federal law over state and local laws.

That would give companies like Amazon, Google and Walmart a one-stop shop for their drone-delivery proposals. But that would also block local governments from adopting measures prohibiting encroachment on private property similar to

zoning laws, Rule said.

“This is arguably one of the largest property-rights grabs by Congress in history,” Rule said.

National groups are debating whether it’s better to have a federal law or a variety of local laws.

“The FAA’s message is clear,” Brian Wynne, CEO of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, told a Senate panel Thursday. “State proposals have the potential to create a complicated patchwork of laws that may erode, rather than enhance, safety.”

But Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst for the American Civil Liberties Union, compared drone policies to other quality-of-life issues about noise and safety and privacy, dealt with through local legislation.

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“This is arguably one of the largest property-rights grabs by Congress in history.”

Troy Rule, an associate professor of law at Arizona State University

bills around drones, according to the National Council of State Legislatures, and 20 states passed legislation, the group said.

North Carolina began in January requiring commercial drone operators to pass a test and obtain a permit before flying. The state has issued 108 permits this year through March 10, according to Chris Gibson, the drone-program manager for the state’s division of aviation.

“We were very careful to not do anything to regulate airspace,” Gibson said. “It’s really geared toward regulating how they are interacting with persons and property on the ground in North Carolina.”

The debate has been rocky in spots.

Complaints poured in from photographers, news stations and agricultural interests after Arkansas state Rep. Justin Harris, RWest Fork, introduced legislation to outlaw drones photographing private property.

“I thought the sky was falling,” Harris said.

Harris ultimately won approval of the law by fitting it under an anti-voyeurism statute, to prohibit filming someone in their backyard or through a window from a drone.

In North Dakota, state Rep. Rick Becker, R-Bismarck, proposed one of the first drone bills in the country in 2013, to require police to have a warrant if they use the aircraft for surveillance.

The bill failed. When he revived it in 2015, the legislation became law with an additional provision to ban lethal weapons on drones.

That was taken to allow law enforcement to mount non-lethal weapons such as tasers, although local police say they haven’t done that yet, he said.

“I don’t think we have to worry about it being confusing,” said Becker, who plans legislation in 2017 to ban all weapons on drones. “If we can figure out the difference in speed limits ... in different states, we’ll do just fine with differences in drone legislation.”

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Trump, rivals do battle under a cloud of violence Trump blamed for ‘toxic’ atmosphere as tensions rise at rallies David Jackson and Aamer Madhani USA TODAY

A Republican presidential race that has been dominated by economic anxiety and outsider politics heads toward important primaries Tuesday under the cloud of a troubling new issue: the prospect of violence.

The violence that has marred Donald Trump rallies has put the Republican front-runner on the defensive as rivals argue that his rhetoric is encouraging chaos.

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growth of Trump’s rhetoric.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz told NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday that it’s wrong for protesters to try to shut down Trump rallies, but “in any campaign, responsibility starts at the top. And it is not beneficial when you have a presidential candidate like Donald Trump telling his supporters, ‘Punch that guy in the face.’ ” Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who needs a win at home this week, said Sunday the businessman exploits Americans’ anxieties.

“There are people out there that listen to this stuff, and we don’t know how they’re going to react,” Rubio said on ABC’s This Week.

Florida is among five states holding primaries Tuesday, along with Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio.

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unorthodox campaigning — broke out at a Trump event in southern Illinois. Trump pulled a man with a handwritten message about immigration from the crowd at his appearance in Bloomington, Ill. The man, who identified himself as Alex Stypik, wore a T-shirt with the message: “Legal Immigrant for Trump.”

The man said that Trump, who

Republican candidate Donald Trump pulls Alex Stypik from a crowd to show off his shirt during a rally Sunday in Bloomington, Ill.

has called for building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, is not properly understood on the issue.

Stypik said that his father brought him to the U.S., when he was 5 and did it “by the book.”

Protesters also appeared at the Illinois event, but their demonstrations were muted compared with the chaos on Friday and Saturday.

On Friday, the same day that a Chicago rally was canceled over fears of violence, police arrested 32 people at a Trump rally in St. Louis. Kansas City police broke out pepper spray twice outside a Trump event on Saturday night to deal with protesters. That incident came after Secret Service tackled a man who rushed a stage as Trump delivered a speech earlier in the day in Vandalia, Ohio.

Republican consultant Bruce Haynes said “it is completely fair for those who reject Trump’s rhetoric to call him out in the public square.”

“Violence isn’t going to create a single job or help a single family,” Haynes said. “Leadership is demonstrated by rising above the ugliness, not generating more of it.”

Madhani reported from Bloomington, Ill.

EXIT FROM AFGHANISTAN: THOUSANDS FLEE COUNTRY Prolonged war, lack of jobs, poor security fueling the exodus Valerie Plesch and Shirzad Ashoori Special for USA TODAY

KABUL Tabesh Ahmadi arrived at this capital city’s sole passport office before dawn, hoping to join more than 35,000 Afghans who have fled their country this year for Western Europe in search of peace and stability. By 6:30 a.m., the line was up to 350 people.

“We are all aware of the risks after we cross the Turkish border and the danger of the seas, but still we want to take these risks, and we’re ready to pay a lot of money to get out of Afghanistan,” said Ahmadi, 26, a university student from Kabul.

“We cannot find jobs here, even with a bachelor or a master’s degree. We do not have a calm life, living with the fear of dying every day,” Ahmadi said.

“We do not have a calm life, living with the fear of dying every day.”

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Nearly 15 years after the U.S.led military intervention toppled the Taliban and $113 billion in U.S. aid spent on relief and reconstruction, Afghans are growing increasingly hopeless about the future of their war-torn nation.

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Refugees line up to receive aid on Saturday in a makeshift camp at the Greek-Macedonian border. Many Afghans, who say they face a bleak future in their own country, have joined the refugees in the camp. joining the flood of millions coming to Europe.

It’s a wave that reflects the failure of the U.S. military to stem gains by the Taliban, the Islamic extremist group that gave al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden a safe haven before the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

The persistent insurgency only recently has gained ground, said Michael Kugelman, a South Asia expert at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. “Over the course of 2015, the Taliban began taking over significant swaths of the country well beyond the south and the east where it has its traditional strongholds.”

Amid the violence, the Afghan government appears powerless to end the fighting, revive a sick economy still dependent on opium exports or halt rampant corruption.

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Thousands of tents like these have been pitched in fields in the makeshift refugee camp in Idomeni, a northern Greek village.

Moves to hold peace talks with the Taliban have gone nowhere despite prodding by outside nations, and prospects for a diplomatic breakthrough anytime soon are dim, Kugelman said.

At a refugee camp in Idomeni in northern Greece, near the recently closed Macedonian border, Qudsia Naib, 41, an Afghan teacher, is one of 14,000 people who fled wars in Syria, Iraq, Afghani-

stan and elsewhere and are now stranded there. Naib made the more than 5,000-mile trek from Afghanistan to Greece en route to prosperous northern Europe.

Three weeks after leaving her home in northern Afghanistan, she waited anxiously with her husband and three young children — with a fourth on the way— to find a way to cross the border and make it to Germany.

“If we would have been killed by the Taliban and died over there, it wouldn’t have been too much of a problem,” said Naib as her 1-year-old son slept on her lap in their cramped tent. “But now we endured such a long journey, and we sold everything to come here. We just want a calm life for our kids, a peaceful life without threats and war.”

Plesch reported from Idomeni, Greece.

IN BRIEF NEW HEALTH REPORTING URGED AFTER PLANE CRASH

French investigators on Sunday urged new rules for medical confidentiality related to pilots. The recommendations came after it was revealed that a doctor referred Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz to a psychiatric hospital two weeks before he deliberately crashed a jet into the French Alps last year, killing 150 people.

An investigation by BEA, France’s civil aviation authority, found that Lubitz had been treated for depression in the past and saw many doctors about his mental health, but none of the doctors informed authorities because of German regulations that prevent the release of private medical information.

Lubitz was using anti-depressants when he crashed the jet on March 24, 2015, BEA said.

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A second body was recovered from the Hudson River on Sunday after a tugboat crashed into a barge at the Tappan Zee Bridge construction site early Saturday morning.

The body was that of crew member Timothy Conklin, 29, of Westbury, Long Island, and was found inside the tugboat.

Still missing and presumed dead is crewmember Harry Fer-

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Elephants enjoy fruits and vegetables at a large buffet Sunday held to mark National Thai Elephant Day at Mae Sa elephant camp in Chiang Mai, Thailand. nandez, 56, from Staten Island.

Dive teams suspended their search for Fernandez on Sunday afternoon because of unfavorable river conditions and planned to resume when “slack tide” conditions promised quieter currents and more visibility for scuba divers.

The victim who was recovered Saturday was identified as Paul Amon, 63, of Bayville, N.J. He was pulled from the water and taken to the New York side of the river,

where he was pronounced dead soon after the crash.

— Adrienne Sanders, The Journal News 7-ELEVEN CUSTOMER SHOOTS HATCHET-WIELDING MAN

A customer at a 7-Eleven in Burien, Wash., shot and killed a hatchet-wielding man Sunday morning.

King County Sheriff Sgt. Cindi West said a man came into the

store with a hatchet, attacking customers and a clerk before another customer shot and killed him. Neither the customer nor attacker were identified.

The customer, a 60-year-old Seattle man, was not injured.

West said the case will be forwarded to the prosecutor’s office, but the initial investigation showed no wrongdoing. West said the customer has a concealed pistol license. — KING-TV, Seattle

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STATE-BY-STATE News from across the USA ALABAMA Birmingham: Those

who jumped into action when three Vestavia Hills students came in contact with a live wire at school helped save the life of a teen who went into cardiac arrest, AL.com reported. “We have coaches, athletic trainers, school resource officers and students who witnessed the accident and responded immediately and more appropriately than anyone could have planned for,” Superintendent Sheila Phillips said. “Because of their actions, they became heroes.”

ALASKA Fairbanks: Scientists and world leaders in Arctic research from around the globe are meeting for Arctic Science Summit Week, newsminer.com reported. The convocation boasts more than wisdom limited to experts in the field. It includes entertainment and family-friendly options related to Arctic science.

ARIZONA Tempe: Tempe Town Lake is close to being empty, which will clear the way for completion of a new steel dam at its west end, The Arizona Republic reported.

ARKANSAS Little Rock: Police arrested a teenage boy in the armed robberies of two Subway restaurants, ArkansasOnline reported.

CALIFORNIA Los Angeles: P-22,

a Griffith Park mountain lion, is suspected of killing one of the city zoo’s koalas. The mountain lion was spotted on cameras stationed around the zoo the night the koala was killed.

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A snowmobiler who said he was driving “blackout drunk” when he apparently struck and killed a sled dog competing in Alaska’s famed Iditarod has been arrested, according to multiple media reports.

“I don’t know how I can possibly make it right,” Arnold Demoski told KTUU-TV before he was taken into custody by Alaska State Troopers. “I hope they can forgive me. I didn’t mean it.”

During the race early Saturday, near the isolated town of Nulato, a snowmobiler crashed into two teams of dogs with front-runners Jeff King and Aliy Zirkle as they separately raced toward the village, race officials said.

Iditarod mushers run their dog teams 1,049 miles, from Anchorage to Nome, in a race honoring the sled-dog teams that once served the 49th state’s far-flung settlements.

Troopers arrested Demoski, 26, later that day, and he faces two counts of third-degree assault, one count of reckless endangerment, one count of reckless driving and five counts of fifth-degree criminal mischief. He was scheduled for arraignment later Sunday.

Demoski said he turned himself in after waking up and realizing nounced its end of operations to the island.

IDAHO Nampa: A man who

escaped from the Canyon County Jail in February was arrested after running from a traffic stop, KTVB-TV reported.

ILLINOIS Chicago: The flight of stairs that forms the backdrop for an epic gunbattle in the 1987 film The Untouchables was renovated as part of an effort to transform Union Station into an entertainment tourist destination, the Chicago Tribune reported.

INDIANA Indianapolis: Sewer

ties are trying to determine the cause of a large fish kill at McPhee Reservoir near Dolores, the Cortez Journal reported.

bills could go up nearly 25% under an agreement announced between Citizens Energy Group and the Indiana Office of Utility Consumer Counselor, raising the typical residential sewer bill by $8.50 per month. The average residential bill is $35 a month, The Indianapolis Star reported.

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James Waugh, 78, pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting four girls between 2000 and 2010, the Hartfort Courant reported. He was sentenced to five years in prison.

Metzger, 55, has been sentenced to five years in prison for shooting at a crop-dusting plane in Palo Alto County last year, KTIVTV reported.

DELAWARE Dover: Legislation

that the Kansas Legislature placed on the University of Kansas could affect the school’s credit, The Wichita Eagle reported.

proposed by Democrats in the state would require state projects to be filled by local workers and veterans through union contracts, The News Journal reported.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Two

bakery robberies, one in January and another in February, are probably linked and possibly orchestrated by a disgruntled former employee, said Mark Furstenberg, 77, proprieter of Bread Furst. Furstenberg told The Washington Post he was frustrated by police, who he said weren’t reacting with appropriate urgency.

KANSAS Topeka: A restriction

KENTUCKY Louisville: Police

reversed course and decided to send an extra 463 rape kits to be tested by Kentucky State Police, The Courier-Journal reported.

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lice and the Orleans Parish coroner investigated a body found partially stuffed inside a city trash can in a vacant Lower 9th Ward lot, The Times-Picayune reported.

The Florida Housing Finance Corp. approved $2,058,028 in State Housing Initiatives Partnership disaster funds for the two EF-3 tornados that hit the county in February, the Pensacola News Journal reported. high school is working with law enforcement to ensure the safety of students planning to attend its prom at Stone Mountain Park because the prom is scheduled on the same date next month as a rally by a self-proclaimed “prowhite” group and counter demonstrations, The Atlanta JournalConstitution reported.

HAWAII Honolulu: Hawaiian

Airlines will offer service between Honolulu and Lanai starting May 16, Hawaii News Now reported.

The new five-times daily services comes days after Island Air an-

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Arnold Demoski was arrested on charges of colliding his snowmobile with Iditarod sled dog race teams on Saturday. what happened.

According to race officials and state police, Demoski made multiple passes at the teams of King and Zirkle, killing one of King’s dogs, Nash, and injuring two others. A dog in Zirkle’s team also received a non-lifethreatening injury, race officials said.

Both mushers have continued on their way. Racers start with 16 dogs but only have to finish with six, and injuries are common because of the race’s length. total of 74 requests for classroom project funding this year in the state.

MARYLAND Annapolis: Soil tests gathered as part of the rollout of tougher fertilizer regulations show that about 80% of farmland has phosphorus amounts below a level that would trigger restrictions on applying more.

MASSACHUSETTS Boston: The Federal Aviation Administration says it is investigating after two different airplanes landing at Boston Logan International Airport had lasers pointed at them, WBZ-TV reported.

MAINE Portland: Actress and

Portland native Anna Kendrick has provided funding for 31 classroom projects at schools throughout Maine this year through an online education charity. Maya Kriet, a spokeswoman for DonorsChoose.org, told the Portland Press Herald that the Pitch Perfect star and an anonymous donor will cover a

“Regrettably, this incident very much alters the race of the two mushers competing for a win; however, both are going to continue on their way toward Nome,” Iditarod organizers said in a statement.

Alaskan mushers and their dog teams are celebrities in the north, and die-hard race fans can track their progress on GPS monitors. The system shows Zirkle in fourth place traveling at 5.8 mph, while King was in 15th place. King won the 2006 race. has no laws preventing women from going topless where men have the same privilege, the New Hampshire Union Leader reported.

NEW JERSEY Paulsboro: A 16-year-old student at Paulsboro High School collapsed during a pick up basketball game and later died at a hospital, The Daily Journal reported.

NEW MEXICO Carlsbad: Fire broke out on the construction site of a Quality Inn being built here, the Current-Argus reported.

The project was only months from completion.

MICHIGAN Lansing: The liberal group Progress Michigan and former Michigan Democratic Party chairman Mark Brewer said that Gov. Snyder is legally required to set up a legal defense fund under state law, rather than have the state pay for his outside legal representation, Detroit Free Press reported.

MINNESOTA St. Paul: Associate Justice Christopher J. Dietzen, 69, plans to resign from the Minnesota Supreme Court this summer, the Star Tribune reported.

MISSISSIPPI Vicksburg: A teen

faces charges of possession of an explosive device and having weapons — knives — on school property after a homemade explosive was found and detonated at Warren Central Junior High, The Vicksburg Post reported.

The Bismarck-Mandan Metropolitan Planning Organization is holding a meeting in Mandan on March 29 and one here on March 31 to gather public input on how to improve traffic.

The House killed a bill without discussion that would have prohibited women from going topless on state beaches. The state

TENNESSEE Clarksville: On

graduation day, valedictorian Brandon Crite will speak to West Creek High School’s Class of 2016, a dream he has had since his freshman year and that helped motivate him as he battled cancer twice since 2011, The Leaf-Chronicle reported.

TEXAS Houston: Hurricane protection plans are causing controversy within the Houston area. A coastal spine would cost up to $8 billion, while a levee system would cost several billion dollars less but leave several communities unprotected, The Texas Tribune reported.

UTAH Farmington: After nearly two months of rehabilitation, a bald eagle believed to have been hit by a car was released back into the wild, the Standard-Examiner reported.

VERMONT Burlington: Judge Gregory Rainville allowed charges of disorderly conduct with a hate crime enhancement to stand against William Schenk, 22, accused of targeting two women of color as he distributed Ku Klux Klan flyers in the city, Burlington Free Press reported.

family of puppet giant Jim Henson has donated 540 Muppetinspired toys and products and 60 books to The Strong National Museum of Play for the Muppets, Fraggles, and Beyond: The Jim Henson Collection exhibition, opening at the downtown museum April 8, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reported.

MONTANA Helena: Gov. Bull-

NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord:

SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux Falls: A 23-year-old man was indicted on rape and burglary charges after police used his cigarette pack to track him down, the Argus Leader reported.

NEW YORK Rochester: The

NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: A federal appeals court ruled the state can offer a “Choose Life” license plate for abortion opponents without offering a plate with an opposing message, The News & Observer reported.

NEVADA Reno: The TruckeeCarson Irrigation District board of directors set the 2016 annual allocation at 70% of normal demand for the Newlands Federal Reclamation Project, the Reno Gazette-Journal reported.

Some peachy-keen news: South Carolina’s 2016 peach season could be the best in years, The Greenville News reported. Andy Rollins, a Clemson University Extension agent, says despite a warmer and wetter than usual fall, South Carolina peach trees still got in all of the necessary chilling hours to make a strong crop.

VIRGINIA Richmond: The Times-Dispatch selected some of its favorite outdoor dining and drinking spots, including Union Market’s bar of recycled wood and Conch Republic’s wraparound deck and sprawling, sunny patio.

MISSOURI St. Joseph: WireCo WorldGroup President and CEO Chris Ayers announced that it is eliminating 49 jobs and winding down a wire rope manufacturing operation that once employed 1,500 people here, The St. Joseph News-Press reported.

NEBRASKA Omaha: The Douglas County Corrections Department is set to receive $1.75 million to start a re-entry program aimed at helping inmates avoid going back to jail, the Omaha World-Herald reported.

GEORGIA Gwinnett County: A

PENNSYLVANIA Harrisburg: The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission voted to delay splitting the 16-county area currently using the 717 area code.

RHODE ISLAND Providence: State tax officials are warning business owners about scammers who pose as tax collectors. The Rhode Island Division of Taxation said that the scammers say they work for the department and demand immediate payment.

ock picked up a primary challenger for the June 7 elections. Bill McChesney, 67, a former Miles City representative, filed his paperwork with the Secretary of State’s office.

FLORIDA Escambia County:

Search and rescue teams reached a man who became stranded while climbing on Mount Hood in whiteout conditions.

NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck:

OHIO Cincinnati: A state ap-

peals court rejected a lawsuit from a family upset over discipline their son received for staring at a girl in a seventh-grade classroom at an Archdiocese of Cincinnati school, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported. The boy, whose name was not released because he is a minor, was suspended for one day.

OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City:

Cheryl Ann Wallace, 46, a nurse with an alleged narcotics addiction, has been accused of fraudulently ordering approximately 3,731 hydrocodone pills for her personal use, The Oklahoman reported.

OREGON Clackamas County:

WASHINGTON Olympia: Lawmakers reached a compromise that would give a 5% raise to state troopers this year, The Olympian reported.

WEST VIRGINIA Clay County: A man who traveled to Haiti is the state’s first confirmed case of the Zika virus, the Charleston Gazette-Mail reported.

WISCONSIN Town: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited Serwas Window Cleaning Services in the death of Tyler Peterson, 20, who fell from a platform Sept. 9, 2015, on the fifth floor of Bella Vista Retirement Community, The Green Bay Press-Gazette reported.

WYOMING Gillette: Peabody

Energy says it will be laying off workers at its Caballo and Rawhide mines in the Powder River Basin, The Gillette News Record reported.

Compiled by Tim Wendel, Nicole Gill and Jonathan Briggs, with Carolyn Cerbin, Linda Dono, Mike Gottschamer, Ben Sheffler, Mike B. Smith and Nichelle Smith. Design by Karen Taylor.

Graphics by Alejandro Gonzalez.

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CHINESE INSURER BUYS LUXURY U.S. HOTELS Blackstone Group sold Strategic Hotels & Resorts in a $6.5 billion sale to China’s Anbang Insurance Group. The private equity firm only completed its $3.93 billion transaction of Strategic Hotels in December.

The Strategic Hotels portfolio includes several well-known hotels, among them the famed Hotel Del Coronado near San Diego, the Fairmont Scottsdale in Arizona, the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco, as well as RitzCarlton, Four Seasons and other luxury brands in various locations. Such properties would appear to match Anbang’s appetite for prestigious hotels; last year the Beijing firm bought New York’s Waldorf Astoria for $1.95 billion.

GOOGLE FUNDS EXPANSION OF OUTREACH PROGRAM Google is funding the expansion of a program from non-profit CODE2040 to help create opportunities for African-American and Latino entrepreneurs outside of Silicon Valley.

Starting this year, minority entrepreneurs in seven cities from Austin to Nashville will get a $40,000 yearly stipend and free office space to build their start-ups while they build bridges to technology for minorities in those communities.

CODE2040 is trying to help close the racial gap in the tech industry.

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Jet-lagged and nervous, Eirini Malliaraki, 25, stood in front of a panel of judges and fielded a barrage of questions about revenue streams, patents, employee targets and product development. It was worth it.

Malliaraki was participating in a “Fast-Pitch Competition” for foreign entrepreneurs on the first day of South by Southwest Interactive here.

The event was organized by International Accelerator, an Austin-based fund and mentorship program that helps foreign-born start-ups break into the U.S. market.

If selected, the London-based start-up she co-founded, Filisia, will get a shot at relocating to the U.S. “It’s a big market and easier to get funding,” Malliaraki said.

“We’d like to come to the States at some point.”

Foreign-born entrepreneurs and start-ups are playing a growing role at SXSW and in the U.S. tech industry.

Around 20% of the nearly 34,000 badge-holders that participate in SXSW Interactive are foreigners,. They are from countries such as Norway, Brazil, Japan, Canada and Mexico, said Peter AUSTIN

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Lewis, SXSW’s manager of international engagement.

Also, for the first time in SXSW’s 30-year history, the Mexican consulate general in Austin transformed the local Emma Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center in downtown Austin into a celebration of foreign-born entrepreneurship.

The concept, called “Casa Mexico,” showcased Mexican rock bands, booths promoting foreign innovations, foreign dignitaries and the International Accelerator pitch competition.

SXSW organizers are so keen on recruiting foreigners to its yearly gathering that it employs five representatives around the world with the year-round task of recruiting more foreign techies

Where: Austin Purpose: Represents the intersection of film, music and tech.

History: Launched as a music conference and festival in 1987. The film and multimedia (later called interactive) portion of the conference launched in 1994.

Attendance: More than 34,000 Interactive participants, though Austin is expected to draw 250,000 people over 10 days.

Companies “discovered” at SXSW: Twitter, Foursquare.

Featured celebrities this year: President Obama, Michelle Obama, J.J. Abrams, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, Kerry Washington, Anthony Bourdain

and companies, Lewis said.

“They play a huge part,” Lewis said. “It is imperative for us to stay relevant and to reach out to international audiences.”

Foreign-born entrepreneurs have left a deep mark in the U.S. tech industry. Some of the industry’s biggest names, including PayPal co-founder Elon Musk, and Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who came to the U.S. as a child, are foreign-born.

In fact, one-fourth of all technology and engineering companies created between 2006 and

2010 were founded by foreignborn entrepreneurs, according to a report by the Kauffman Foundation.

But relocating to the U.S. to launch a start-up is becoming an increasingly difficult endeavor, due to an immigration system that doesn’t recognize their value, said Jason Finkelman, an Austinbased national immigration attorney who helps IT foreigners come to the U.S. Foreign entrepreneurs often apply for an H-1B visa, which grants temporary residence to professionals. But the odds of obtaining those, which are dispersed via a lottery, are increasingly slim, he said.

President Obama in recent years hinted of launching a “start-up visa” aimed at foreignborn entrepreneurs, but so far nothing has come out of it — and nothing will in the near future as immigration has become a hot topic this election year, Finkelman said. The issue of H-1B visas made it into recent recent presidential election debates.

“We have an archaic immigration system here put into place decades ago that never took into consideration the tech boom,” he said. “As of now, there is literally no visa option for foreign-born entrepreneurs.”

At the pitch competition at Casa Mexico, judges heard five-minute pitches from more than 60 start-ups from 10 countries. Five finalists will get a shot of joining International Accelerator’s stable of start-ups.

Oil, gas producers have winter of discontent Warm weather, low prices are not good news for everyone Bill Loveless

@bill_loveless Special for USA TODAY

U.S. consumers saved substantially on their heating bills this winter, as the country enjoyed its warmest winter ever.

But with the first day of spring just a few days away, not everyone is rejoicing.

“If you’re a consumer, it’s great.

But if you’re the guy responsible for producing the stuff, it’s not.

This is a rough time,” said Porter Bennett, a longtime analyst of U.S. energy markets.

In fact, Bennett’s firm, Ponderosa Energy, just put out a report whose title sums up the situation confronting oil and gas producers: “Winter of Discontent.”

“It’s hard to make investment decisions right now because of a number of factors,” Bennett said in an interview. “Nobody knows what the bottom is.”

Thanks to a strong El Niño, temperatures in the lower-48 states averaged 36.8 degrees from December through February, 4.6 degrees above the 20th-century average, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

That meant much less need for gas to heat homes and businesses at a time when the U.S. is pumping gas at record levels, storing it at five-year-highs, and selling it at the lowest prices in 18 years.

The U.S. set a new record for gas production in 2015, with an average of 71.8 billion cubic feet per day, according to Ponderosa Energy. The Denver-based firm expects that average daily output to inch up to 72.3 billion cubic feet in 2016 before tapering off to 71.4 billion cubic feet in 2017.

Why so much gas, when there’s so little need for it?

To a large extent, thousands of wells drilled in gas-rich shale re-

gions in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Oklahoma and West Virginia in recent years are still going strong, despite the fall-off in prices.

Moreover, many producers are benefiting from hedges they made for 2016 that enable them to sell gas at prices much higher than current spot prices.

Earlier this month, the spot price for U.S. gas fell to $1.57 per million British thermal units, its lowest level since 1998.

But those hedges will play out by 2017, and replicating may be difficult with prices down so much now, Bennett said.

The mismatch between supply and demand also is contributing to a glut of stored gas, with nearly 2.5 trillion cubic feet accumulated around the country, about 40% above the five-year average, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Ponderosa Energy expects gas prices will remain low in the near term, but will rise later this year as cheap gas eats further into coal’s share of U.S. power plants.

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tricity generation in 2016, at 33%, compared with 32% for coal. That would mark the first time gas provides more electricity than coal on an annual average basis.

The gas industry also stands to benefit from the recent start of

U.S. liquefied natural gas exports, although a soft global market for LNG makes uncertain how much U.S. producers can sell abroad.

Perhaps the biggest boon for producers would be a hot summer, which would keep air conditioners and the power plants that support them running.

But Bennett, who’s been in the energy analytics business for more than 30 years, acknowledges that relying on Mother Natural for a recovery is risky.

“Temperature is not something I like to bet on,” he said.

That said, Bennett sees signs of an eventual recovery as banks and other financiers help some producers restructure debt for the day they can ramp up drilling.

“There’s a tremendous amount of private equity out there that wants to get into this business,” he said. “That’s where a lot of the money is going to come from to help bring things back.”

Loveless is a veteran energy journalist and television commentator in Washington. He is a former host of the TV program Platts Energy Week.

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. YOU NEED TO BE AS RICH AS DONALD TRUMP TO FLY IN A PRIVATE JET.

“Yes, it helps if you want to own a Boeing 757 in executive configuration like his, but that is not a reality for 99.9% of the population,” says Mark Lefever, president and chief operating officer of Avjet, a broker and adviser.

The answer is “no” if you want to charter.

A round-trip flight in a private jet can cost as little at $6,000, says Kevin O’Leary, president of Jet Advisors, which offers advice on private aviation options. “The typical charter costs for a light jet are $3,000 per hour with a twohour per day minimum,” O’Leary says. “This would allow a passenger to fly from New York to Washington, D.C., and back in the same day for about $6,000. A round-trip flight between New York City and Naples, Fla., would likely cost around $30,000. So if you fill the seven seats typically found in a light jet, that is $4,300 per person. These prices are still higher than the first-class airline tickets, but you don’t need to be ‘The Donald’ to afford them.”

Before you reach for your credit card, there are even cheaper deals to be found, according to Doug Gollan, editor in chief of DG Amazing Experiences, a newsletter for private jet owners and passengers. Gollan points to JetSuite Suite Deals, which are posted daily and start at about $500.

“Last week, for $536, you could have flown the next day from Tyler, Texas, to Dallas,” he says

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f you’ve ever spotted a private jet in flight or on the tarmac, you’ve probably wondered which celebrity it belonged to. The fact is that many jets are chartered, not privately owned by a fat cat or pop star, and they’re mostly used for business, not lavish vacations. It’s a world shrouded in mystery, so here are five myths about private jets.

“They post the specials for the next day on their Facebook page.”

The company recently began offering private jet flights to Cuba, with one-way prices for up to six passengers for $11,152 from Key West (JetSuite says it’s the responsibility of each passenger to secure his or her own permission to travel to Cuba, which is allowed by the U.S. government only under specific approved categories).

“You can also reach out to the multitude of charter brokers who don’t typically own planes but source aircraft that are available for charter, and then get five friends and divide the costs,” Gollan says. “Under these circumstances, you might be able to do a Los Angeles-to-Aspen trip for around $2,500 a head. “ Still interested in owning your own jet? O’Leary says, “The purchase cost can be a little as $500,000 with annual operating costs at an additional $500,000 or more. The major concern is with unexpected repairs. A major engine repair or scheduled overhaul on just one engine could easily cost $300,000.”

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. IF BAD WEATHER FORCES COMMERCIAL FLIGHTS TO DELAY OR CANCEL, THEN PRIVATE JETS HAVE TO DO SO AS WELL.

Lefever says this isn’t true. Private jets have the ability to land at many more airports than commercial aircraft and to change flight plans very quickly.

“Private jets have the option of waiting it out or choosing an alternate airport,” he says. “The best example is LAX-SFO, a common flight that has delays due to weather in the Bay Area.”

A private jet, he says, “can file a new flight plan and go to Oakland, which isn’t much farther to downtown San Francisco than the SFO airport,” with minimal delays.

3 “There are various ways to com. PRIVATE JETS ARE NOT AS SAFE AS AIRLINES.

pare the stats, but more passenger fatalities have occurred on scheduled commercial flights than on both charter and private jets” in the past 15 years, Lefever says.

Comparisons of accident rates per hour operated show less of a discrepancy, but the reality is that both are extremely safe and safety is always the No. 1 concern for both, Lefever says.

Gollan says, “I used to fly regularly on NetJets, and my pilots were former 747-400 captains for United Airlines and chief pilots for Fortune 500 companies. Most of the major fleet operators that

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own and operate their aircraft have spotless records. Most of the fleet on the charter market is used by the owner and chartered when he or she is not using it, so obviously owners want maintenance and pilots at a high standard.”

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. YOU MIGHT BE FLYING PRIVATE, BUT YOU STILL HAVE TO GO THROUGH SECURITY AND DEAL WITH THE TSA.

No, you can forget about security lines, taking off your shoes and emptying your pockets. You won’t find metal detectors or body scanners. O’Leary says that often “there is no TSA or pre-flight checks required. The pilots may check the ID of the lead passenger; otherwise, you will be loaded and on your way within minutes of arrival at the airport. At some private airports, you can actually pull your car up to the aircraft, unload and have valet (service for) your car, so you could be in the air within minutes.”

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. COMMERCIAL AIRLINES FLY FASTER THAN PRIVATE JETS.

That silver blip sailing by your window on a transcontinental flight? Chances are it’s a private jet.

“The fastest passenger jets in the sky are private, depending on the model of jet flown,” Lefever says. “Private jets also fly above the commercial airlines and a lot of times the weather and turbulence that they incur.“ Some private jets have the ability to fly above the weather up to 51,000 feet, and “a couple private jets fly near the speed of sound,” O’Leary says.

Some use deceit to get a deal Travel industry may shoulder some of the blame Christopher Elliott

chris@elliott.org Special for USA TODAY

ON TRAVEL EVERY MONDAY

Let’s talk about travelers who feign injury, illness and even death in order to get preferential

treatment.

Let’s talk about the fakers.

When travel companies, and particularly airlines, announce restrictive new policies almost daily, it’s no wonder the frequent liars are everywhere. As the busy spring break travel season begins to heat up, maybe it’s time to start asking hard questions about these charlatans.

They’re passengers such as the one Lori Moore, a college professor from Louisville, saw on a recent South American cruise. The woman ambled effortlessly through the buffet line and all over the ship while they were at sea. “But whenever we had shore excursions or ports that required a tender, she was suddenly in a wheelchair to get priority boarding and sit in the handicapped seats in the front of the tour bus,” she remembers.

Travel is home to at least two types of fakers. First, there are

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When you take up a wheelchair just so you can board early, you’re taking a service from someone who might really need it. the passengers who misrepresent their personal circumstances to persuade someone to waive a fee or grant an upgrade. Lilliana Torrey, a legal secretary from Chicago, admits she once told an airline her uncle had died, so it would waive a change fee. He had passed away — 12 years before.

Travelers who feign a physical hardship or handicap make up the second group. They include passengers who dress their dogs up as service animals to carry them on the plane. At this time of year, you see fakers in action on flights to warm-weather destinations such as Miami. They’re priority-boarded in wheelchairs.

Then, miraculously, they walk off the plane unassisted. These are called “hallelujah flights.”

Faking it is wrong, no two ways

about it. But it’s wildly popular. A recent survey by Jetsetter.com found that 39% of hotel guests told lies to get a room upgrade.

Why do travelers do it? Is it simply because they want something they’re not entitled to — or because they feel it’s justified?

The travel industry would prefer that you not ask such questions. As far as it’s concerned, faking is lying, and lying is always wrong. But consider some of the more onerous change policies that have recently emerged: uAirlines used to change tickets at no charge. Today, it costs $200 to change a domestic ticket, and that doesn’t include any fare differential. Some tickets can’t be changed at all. uNot so long ago, hotels would cancel your reservation as

a courtesy. Now, many prepaid rates are completely non-refundable. If you’re lucky, you’ll be charged one night’s lodging when you have to cancel at the last minute. uCruise lines have taken a hard line on changes, too. If you have to cancel your vacation and you’re not insured, you’re out of luck, unless you can show a death certificate.

Don’t even get me started on comfort and convenience. Many fliers squeezed into middle seats spend the whole flight pondering what they can do to avoid it next time. Some of those hallelujah passengers being wheeled onto the plane are probably scheming for space for their luggage in the overhead bin.

Michael Brein, a Seattle-based psychologist who specializes in travel industry issues, says travel is a breeding ground for fakers because faking it is easy. You’re away from home and people are inclined to believe you.

But someone pays for the fakery. When you request a hotel room or cruise ship cabin for people with disabilities because it has more space, or you take up a wheelchair just so you can board early, you aren’t just gaming the system — you’re also taking a service from someone who might really need it. “The idea that someone would fake an illness or disability, presumably to gain an advantage, would be laughable if it were not so objectionable,” says Brett Heising, a writer who does reviews for travelers with disabilities.

Q: When Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared in 2014, there was general disbelief that a commercial airliner lacked a universal tracking device. Since that time, has there been any substantial implementation of such devices, or could the same result occur today?

—Scott Smouse, Bellevue, Wash.

A: I realized that many people believed there was universal tracking of all airliners until the disappearance of MH370.

This was not true, but because there had never been a case of an airliner with passengers aboard disappearing, it was not a concern. It is essential to remember that billions of flights have safely operated over oceans and remote areas safely without real-time tracking.

The tragic loss of MH370 caused an outcry for real-time tracking (although it would not have altered what happened). In response to this, the International Air Transit Association (IATA) led a group of airline and aviation safety experts to determine the appropriate response.

Since that group met, there has been an increase in the number of airplanes uplinking information to satellites and being tracked. Not all airplanes have the capability to communicate with satellites. These airplanes continue to use the traditional procedures.

It is possible that an airplane could disappear like MH370, but it is extremely unlikely. The jet age began in the mid-1950s; in the ensuing 65 years, only one jet with passengers has disappeared.

This makes MH370 a single event in billions of flights.

Q: Do you think Malaysia Flight 370 will ever be found or the truth ever known?

— Brian Crites, Lee’s Summit, Mo. A: Yes, I believe MH370 will be found. Aviation does not accept mysteries easily. History shows that other missing airliners have been found, and this is the basis of my belief. I have confidence in the investigative team to solve the question of what happened to MH370.

FAKING IS WRONG; DO THIS INSTEAD uDon’t book with a bad company. Read the cancellation policies before you make a reservation. If they’re too restrictive, then don’t book a ticket or room. Avoid prepaid car rental or hotel rates, if you think you’ll need to be flexible. uBe loyal. If someone recognizes you as a frequent customer — either because of your card, or even better, because they know your face — then you’re far more likely to get a restrictive policy waived than feigning the sniffles. uBe honest. A polite request to waive a rule is often as effective as inventing an ailment or an extenuating personal circumstance. Remember, it’s the hospitality industry — generally, employees want to please you.

It would be easy to channel all of our collective rage at the fakers, which is exactly what the travel industry wants us to do.

But think about it. Who created these super-restrictive policies, the uncomfortable seats, the bag fees that led everyone to compete for the overhead bins? If you believe passengers are to blame then condemn these fibbers. If you believe the travel companies created these policies to squeeze more profit out of us, you may find the blame is not so clear-cut.

Elliott is editor at large for National Geographic Traveler.

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CAUGHT IN THE ACT Jordan Peele and KeeganMichael Key were in Austin over the weekend to give South by Southwest attendees a first look at their action-comedy ‘Keanu’ before their film — named for its feline star — hits theaters April 29.

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Lea Michele turned heads in a sleek, asymmetrical Jill Stuart minidress at the PaleyFest panel for ‘Scream Queens’ Saturday in Los Angeles.

The actress, who plays Hester in the Fox series, paired the outfit with straight hair and EF Collection earrings.

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THEY SAID WHAT? THE STARS’ BEST QUOTES “I just want you to know that doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it. To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.”

— ‘K.C. Undercover’ actress Zendaya, accepting the Kids’ Choice Award for favorite female TV star Saturday night

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IT’S YOUR BIRTHDAY WHO’S CELEBRATING TODAY?

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wen Stefani — pop star, fashion icon, coach-turned-highprofile-adviser on NBC’s The Voice — is a grateful woman. “I’ve had so many blessings,” she says.

“But then, there’s this unluckyin-love situation that’s, like, a theme.”

Stefani, 46, is a bit mystified by it: “My parents have been together since high school, as have my brother and sister-in-law. But I understand that everybody has good and bad things happen.”

Indeed, last year alone provided the singer/songwriter with quite a mixed bag. After she divorced Gavin Rossdale, her husband since 2002 and the father of her three sons, luck shone on Stefani in the form of fellow Voice coach and country star Blake Shelton. The two began dating last fall, after Shelton and his wife, Miranda Lambert, split up as well.

That range of experience is reflected on This Is What the Truth Feels Like, the No Doubt frontwoman’s first solo album in a decade, out Friday.

“It’s really the first time I’ve written a record about being happy,” Stefani says, though she adds that the songs — several crafted as recently as January — also are informed by “the tragedy,” as she refers to her breakup with Rossdale. “I don’t know what else to call it. The horrible thing that happened.”

It was in February 2015, Stefani recalls, “that I found out my life was going to change forever.

Instead of wanting to die, I said to myself: ‘I’m not going to go down.

I’m going to turn this into music.’ ” She began writing in June and “then started at The Voice in July.

And everyone knows what hap-

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Stefani and Blake Shelton are partners in life and at work on The Voice.

pened after that. ... It was like, whoa — I didn’t see that coming!

All of a sudden, I got saved.”

Stefani does not, on this occasion, elaborate on her relationship with Shelton. “I’ve already said so much about it,” she says, sounding a tad sheepish. Advising her beau on Voice “did intimidate me a little bit — to sit with someone like the king of country and have country artists and try to put my two cents in. And with the added layer that we’re in a differ-

ent place together. But it was really super-fun.”

Stefani, whose last album with No Doubt, 2012’s Push And Shove, sold 259,000 copies, according to Nielsen Music, told her co-writers on Truth “that I don’t care about hits.” She’s eager for fans to hear the songs live, but “I have three kids, so it’s never going to be like it was before, a real tour. I don’t see how I can do that, with them at school.”

During summer vacation, perhaps? “I’d feel bad about that. ‘So now you’re going to give up your whole summer so you can sit on a bus while I sing songs?’ ” More soberly, Stefani says, “I see my kids half the time now” as a result of her custody arrangement with Rossdale. “That, to me, is devastating. At the same time, I’ve been able to recover the way I have. ... I know that things are going to keep unfolding and evolving, and I have faith that everything’s going to get better and better.”

JAMIE NELSON

“It’s really the first time I’ve written a record about being happy,” Gwen Stefani says, though she adds that This Is What the Truth Feels Like, out Friday, also is colored by the breakup of her marriage.

MOVIES

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‘Cloverfield Lane,’ returning films fill out the top five Brian Truitt USA TODAY

There’s no scaring off Zootopia.

The animated animal comedy finished first at the box office for a second week in a row by pulling in $50 million and holding off the J.J. Abrams-produced thriller 10 Cloverfield Lane, according to studio estimates from comScore.

The domestic total stands at $142.6 million after 10 days, and another $83.1 million internationally has run its worldwide tally to $431.3 million.

“Disney released a movie for families at the perfect time, and they are definitely reaping the benefits of that,” says comScore senior box office analyst Paul Dergarabedian. “The marketplace has spoken.”

Directed by first-time feature filmmaker Dan Trachtenberg,

DISNEY

Zootopia’s Nick Wilde (voiced by Jason Bateman) and bunny officer Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) speak to audiences.

Cloverfield Lane snagged a decent haul of $25.2 million with its taut plot of a woman (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) trapped in a bunker and told there has been a chemical attack outside. Though it scored a middling B-grade from audiences at CinemaScore, critics approved of the scare tactics: Lane has a 91% “fresh” rating on RottenTomatoes.com.

A great marketing campaign, solid social media, a mysterious

concept, Abrams’ name attached and a modest budget in the midteen millions make it “a profitmaking machine for Paramount,” Dergarabedian says.

The top five was rounded out by a trio of returning films: $10.8 million for the R-rated comicbook antihero Deadpool ($328.1 million total); $10.7 million for the Gerard Butler action film London Has Fallen ($38.9 million total); and $4.6 million for the Ti-

na Fey war comedy Whiskey Tango Foxtrot ($14.6 million total).

The ensemble romantic comedy The Perfect Match opened with $4.2 million, and the biblical drama The Young Messiah could muster only $3.4 million in its debut. The tale of a 7-year-old Jesus took some heat for a whitewashed cast yet earned an A- at CinemaScore and an above-average 63% RottenTomatoes score from critics.

“Faith-based movies tend to be very consistent performers, particularly at this time of the year,” Dergarabedian says. “Maybe it’ll get a nice boost Easter weekend, but there’s almost too much inventory in terms of films in the marketplace.”

The biggest first-week bomb was The Brothers Grimsby with $3.2 million. Crowds gave the vulgar action comedy — starring Sacha Baron Cohen and Mark Strong as estranged brothers — a B+ at CinemaScore, but critics weren’t as kind (38% on Rotten Tomatoes).

Final figures are expected Monday.

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Oregon, Virginia get top seeds over Michigan State

By Eddie Pells AP National Writer

A topsy-turvy season in college basketball delivered a few more twists when the brackets came out Sunday.

Exhibit A: Oregon and Virginia are No. 1 seeds, while Michigan State is not.

Exhibit B: Monmouth and Valparaiso aren’t part of March Madness, but Michigan and Syracuse are.

As usual, the NCAA selection committee released a 68-team bracket with its fair share of surprises. This year, the debate started right away, when the committee named Pac-12 champion Oregon a top seed in the West, ACC runner-up Virginia a top seed in the Midwest and made Tom Izzo’s Spartans, champs of the Big Ten, a “2.”

They’ll decide it on the court. The tournament starts Tuesday with a pair of opening-round games. The main draw begins Thursday at eight sites. The Final Four is April 2 and 4 in Houston.

In a season in which six teams held the top spot in

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MICHIGAN STATE COACH TOM IZZO REACTS TO A PLAY during the second half of the Big Ten Conference tournament on Sunday in Indianapolis. MSU won the title, but earned just a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament.

The Associated Press poll — one short of the record — there was no doubt there would be some debate about who belonged in the four top spots. That Big 12 and Atlantic Coast Conference champions Kansas and North Car-

olina earned two of the spots wasn’t that surprising. The rest of it raised eyebrows.

The head of the selection committee, Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castiglione, lauded Oregon’s third-rated strength of schedule (as of

Sunday) and No.2 ranking in the RPI, along with its regular-season and tournament titles in the Pac-12. He said Michigan State was the fifth overall seed.

“Very close. It was a vigorous debate,” Castiglione said.

“We know how good a team they are. ... It was just a close call and the committee felt Michigan State was fifth.”

But there were no easy choices for the committee this season, and the way the big slate of conference tournaments played out only emphasized the way this season has gone. Of the 31 postseason tournaments, top seeds only won 10.

That gave automatic spots to bubble teams (or less) such as Fresno State, Gonzaga and Connecticut, while squeezing out a few bubble spots — even though there were two more available this season because Louisville (and Rick Pitino) and SMU (and Larry Brown) are both ineligible.

Among those sitting out include Monmouth, which played a killer nonconfer-

ence schedule but lost too many games to bad teams; St. Mary’s, which won the regular-season title in the West Coast Conference but didn’t play a tough enough schedule; and Valpo, which ranked 49 in the RPI but had only four wins against top 100 teams.

Of the at-large teams, 25 came from the Power Five conferences, with 11 from the smaller leagues. Of the last eight teams to make it, the count was 4-4, with Michigan, Vanderbilt and Syracuse among the most hotly debated among the bigger schools.

“In the past, the committee has taken teams with wins, especially road wins,” said Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim, whose team’s wins away from home against Duke, Texas A&M and UConn made up for the fact that the Orange (19-13) has lost five of its last six. “I’m not sure there’s anyone on the bubble who had as good of road wins as we did.”

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KANSAS UNIVERSITY TODAY • Women’s golf at Arizona Wildcat Invitational TUESDAY • Baseball vs. Murray State, 3 p.m.

• Women’s golf at Arizona Wildcat Invitational

Schwartzel prevails in Valspar playoff Palm Harbor, Fla. (ap) — Charl Schwartzel used two big birdies to close with a 4-under 67 and made up a five-shot deficit. All he needed was a par on the first hole of a playoff Sunday at Innisbrook to beat Bill Haas and win the Valspar Championship.

Schwartzel’s two-putt par on the 18th hole in a playoff gave him his third victory worldwide in his last six starts dating to December.

Haas, who never trailed over the final 27 holes of regulation,

hit his tee shot into the trees in the playoff, came up short into a bunker and blasted long out of the soft sand to 20 feet.

He missed the par putt, and Schwartzel tapped in for his first victory in America since the 2011 Masters.

Former Kansas University golfer Gary Woodland closed with a 1-over 72 and finished at 4-over 288, tied for 42nd and 11 strokes off the lead.

The loudest cheers belonged to Lee McCoy, the senior at Georgia who grew up next to

Avondale, Ariz. — Kevin Harvick and Carl Edwards twice bumped on the final lap before Harvick inched over the finish line first in an overtime finish Sunday for his record eighth NASCAR Sprint Cup victory at Phoenix International Raceway.

Harvick had the lead on the late restart before the charging Edwards made it a side-by-side duel.

“I knew he was better through (Turns) 3 and 4,” Harvick said.

“That was not the car that I wanted to see behind me.”

After the cars banged a second time, Harvick nosed to the line from the outside 0.010 seconds ahead to continue his dominance at the mile oval.

It’s the same margin of victory as Denny Hamlin’s thrilling win over Martin Truex Jr. last month in the Daytona 500. It was the closest finish in track history.

“I got up too high and wasn’t able to stay on the bottom like I wanted to and then he got into me, like he should have,” Harvick said. “I needed to get a good run off the corner and I was going to have to get into his door. It worked out, just barely.”

Harvick made up for qualifying 18th by shooting toward the front early in the race. His took the lead for good in the No. 4 Chevrolet when he immediately passed Edwards on a restart with 77 laps to go.

Harvick built a lead approaching three seconds before Kasey Kahne hit the wall with six laps left to bring out the caution.

Harvick had enough fuel for the extra two laps — and just barely enough to hold off Edwards.

“If we had one more lap, I could have passed him clean,” Edwards said. “But it just wasn’t going to work without bumping him. So I decided to hit him as hard as I did. I really didn’t want to wreck him. I thought I moved him enough to get by, but it’s just racing.”

It gave NASCAR another thrilling finish with its new downforce and aerodynamic packages. Used for the first time on a mile-track, the package helped produce plenty of passing and only a handful of tire issues after long green-flag runs.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Ex-coach Duncan dies at age 75 Oklahoma City — Donnie Duncan, a former Oklahoma athletic director and Iowa State football coach, has died at the age of 75.

Son-in-law Patrick Reardon says Duncan, who suffered from cancer, died in his sleep Saturday in Dallas.

Duncan was on Barry Switzer’s Oklahoma football staff from 1973-78, and he helped the Sooners go 62-6-2. He went 18-24-2 in four seasons at Iowa State. His 1980 and 1981 Cyclone squads were ranked, and the 1981 Cyclones began 5-1-1 and were ranked as high as No. 11 in the Associated Press poll. Duncan’s squads went 3-1 against Iowa, including three straight wins in 1980, 1981 and 1982.

Duncan was executive director of the Sun Bowl and Gator Bowl before returning to Oklahoma. He was athletic director from 198696. He became Big 12 director of football operations when the conference formed in 1996.

HIGH SCHOOLS HUB:

Spieth fell behind early, never caught up and closed with a 73 to tie for 18th, seven shots behind.

Schwartzel was the only player who put any sustained pressure on Haas, and he made his move with a 65-foot birdie putt across the green on the par-3 13th hole. He got up-anddown from a tough lie in the bunker for birdie on the 14th, made a tough par save from the edge of a bunker on the 16th and rolled in a 25-foot putt on the 17th.

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BRIEFLY

Harvick claims win at Phoenix again

Innisbrook and made good on his first sponsor’s exemption.

Playing alongside Jordan Spieth, McCoy shot 69 to finish alone in fourth.

It was the best finish by an amateur in a PGA Tour event of top players since 17-yearold Justin Rose tied for fourth at the British Open in 1998 at Royal Birkdale. Robbie Shelton tied for third last year in the Barbasol Championship, held opposite the British Open.

McCoy would have earned $292,800 had he been a pro.

The Associated Press

Cavaliers 114, Clippers 90 Los Angeles — LeBron James scored 27 points, and Cleveland buried the Los Angeles Clippers with three-pointers Sunday, tying its season high with 18 from long range.

J.R. Smith and Kyrie Irving added 17 points each, and Channing Frye had 15 on a season-high-tying five threepointers for the Eastern Conference leaders.

CLEVELAND (114) James 9-15 6-7 27, Love 5-11 2-4 12, Mozgov 1-4 0-0 2, Irving 7-17 1-1 17, Smith 6-9 0-0 17, Thompson 3-6 4-6 10, Shumpert 2-4 0-0 4, Dellavedova 2-5 1-2 7, Frye 5-8 0-0 15, Jefferson 0-2 0-0 0, McRae 0-1 0-0 0, Jones 1-1 0-0 3, Kaun 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 41-84 14-20 114.

L.A. CLIPPERS (90) Mbah a Moute 1-5 0-0 2, Green 2-10 3-5 7, Jordan 4-4 3-4 11, Paul 5-11 4-4 17, Redick 7-11 3-3 19, Crawford 3-11 0-0 8, Johnson 4-13 1-1 11, Rivers 4-7 2-2 11, Aldrich 2-4 0-0 4, Prigioni 0-3 0-0 0. Totals 32-79 16-19 90.

Cleveland 21 37 33 23 — 114 L.A. Clippers 19 22 27 22 — 90 3-Point Goals-Cleveland 18-37 (Frye 5-7, Smith 5-8, James 3-4, Dellavedova 2-2, Irving 2-7, Jones 1-1, Jefferson 0-2, Shumpert 0-2, Love 0-4), L.A. Clippers 10-32 (Paul 3-6, Redick 2-5, Crawford 2-6, Johnson 2-6, Rivers 1-2, Mbah a Moute 0-1, Prigioni 0-2, Green 0-4).

Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Cleveland 56 (Thompson 11), L.A. Clippers 43 (Jordan 11).

Assists-Cleveland 23 (James, Irving 5), L.A. Clippers 23 (Paul 10). Total Fouls-Cleveland 19, L.A. Clippers 23. Technicals-L.A. Clippers Coach Rivers. A-19,342 (19,060).

Hawks 104, Pacers 75 Atlanta — Al Horford and Paul Millsap each scored 18 points, Kyle Korver added 14, and Atlanta used a blistering third quarter to rout Indiana.

The Pacers’ 75 points were a season low for the team and for an Atlanta opponent.

Indiana had won three straight to move 11⁄2 games behind Atlanta for the sixth Eastern Conference playoff spot, but the Pacers fell apart after trimming the lead to eight.

INDIANA (75) George 3-15 0-0 7, Turner 9-17 1-2 19, Mahinmi 4-5 0-0 8, G.Hill 2-8 1-1 5, Ellis 4-9 1-2 10, Stuckey 1-3 0-0 2, Allen 0-1 1-2 1, J.Hill 2-6 0-0 4, Miles 3-9 0-0 8, S.Hill 1-4 0-0 2, Young 1-6 0-0 2, Robinson III 3-4 0-0 7. Totals 33-87 4-7 75.

ATLANTA (104) Bazemore 3-5 0-0 8, Millsap 7-14 2-2 18, Horford 8-12 0-0 18, Teague 2-5 1-2 6, Korver 5-13 0-0 14, Sefolosha 4-5 2-2 12, Schroder 4-8 0-0 8, Humphries 3-6 0-0 7, Hardaway Jr. 1-5 2-2 5, Scott 0-5 2-2 2, Hinrich 0-2 0-0 0, Muscala 3-5 0-0 6. Totals 40-85 9-10 104.

Indiana 17 21 18 19 — 75 Atlanta 30 22 37 15 — 104 3-Point Goals-Indiana 5-24 (Miles 2-7, Robinson III 1-2, Ellis 1-2, George 1-5, Turner 0-1, S.Hill 0-1, Young 0-1, Stuckey 0-1, G.Hill 0-4), Atlanta 15-30 (Korver 4-9, Sefolosha 2-2, Bazemore 2-2, Millsap 2-4, Horford 2-4, Humphries 1-1, Teague 1-2, Hardaway Jr. 1-2, Schroder 0-1, Hinrich 0-1, Scott 0-2). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Indiana 45 (Mahinmi 7), Atlanta 58 (Millsap 9). Assists-Indiana 24 (George 6), Atlanta 27 (Teague 9). Total FoulsIndiana 14, Atlanta 13. Technicals-Atlanta defensive three second. A-17,066 (18,729).

Jazz 108, Kings 99 Sacramento, Calif. — Derrick Favors had 28 points and 14 rebounds, and Gordon Hayward scored 27 points for Utah, which never trailed in defeating Sacramento. The Jazz won their second straight game by setting the tone early, coming out with energy against the lethargic Kings and leading by 18 points after one quarter.

UTAH (108) Hayward 9-19 5-5 27, Favors 10-16 8-10 28, Gobert 0-3 0-2 0, Mack 5-11 0-0 14, Hood 6-10 0-0 12, Johnson 2-3 0-0 6, Booker 3-10 4-4 10, Neto 1-2 1-1 3, Ingles 0-2 0-0 0, Lyles 1-3 0-0 3, Burke 2-3 0-0 5. Totals 39-82 18-22 108.

SACRAMENTO (99) Gay 3-9 0-0 6, Acy 1-2 0-0 2, Cousins 10-23 8-11 31, Rondo 3-9 0-0 7, Collison 5-9 4-4 14, Cauley-Stein 4-6 2-6 10, Belinelli 0-1 0-0 0, Casspi 8-12 0-0 20, Koufos 2-6 0-0 4, Curry 2-4 0-0 5. Totals 38-81 14-21 99.

Utah 36 25 23 24 — 108 Sacramento 18 27 24 30 — 99 3-Point Goals-Utah 12-28 (Mack 4-6, Hayward 4-9, Johnson 2-2, Burke 1-2, Lyles 1-2, Hood 0-1, Ingles 0-1, Neto 0-1, Booker 0-4), Sacramento 9-21 (Casspi 4-4, Cousins 3-6, Curry 1-2, Rondo 1-4, Gay 0-1, Collison 0-4). Fouled Out-Gobert.

Rebounds-Utah 55 (Favors 14), Sacramento 42 (Cousins 10). Assists-Utah 26 (Mack 8), Sacramento 25 (Rondo 9). Total Fouls-Utah 22, Sacramento 20. A-17,023 (17,317).

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CLEVELAND’S LEBRON JAMES, LEFT, PRESSURES Los Angeles Clippers guard Chris Paul. The Cavaliers defeated the Clippers, 114-90, on Sunday in Los Angeles.

How former Jayhawks fared Cole Aldrich, L.A. Clippers Min: 12. Pts: 4. Reb: 5. Ast: 1.

Tarik Black, L.A. Lakers Did not play (coach’s decision).

Kirk Hinrich, Atlanta Min: 12. Pts: 0. Reb: 3. Ast: 2.

Sasha Kaun, Cleveland Min: 2. Pts: 0. Reb: 2. Ast: 0.

Ben McLemore, Sacramento Did not play (finger injury).

Paul Pierce, L.A. Clippers Did not play (sore right toe).

Thomas Robinson, Brooklyn Min: 10. Pts: 3. Reb: 4. Ast: 0.

Jeff Withey, Utah Did not play (coach’s decision).

Bucks 109, Nets 100 New York — Giannis Antetokounmpo had 28 points, 14 assists and 11 rebounds, nearly getting his fourth triple-double in the last 11 games by halftime, and Milwaukee beat Brooklyn.

Antetokounmpo already had 12 points, nine assists and eight rebounds by the half on his way to becoming the first Bucks player with four tripledoubles in a season. All of them have come since Feb. 22.

Jabari Parker added 23 points, and Khris Middleton had 19 points to help the Bucks win their third straight game.

MILWAUKEE (109) Antetokounmpo 12-16 4-11 28, Parker 11-17 1-1 23, Monroe 6-13 2-2 14, Bayless 3-8 0-0 9, Middleton 7-15 2-2 19, Plumlee 4-10 4-5 12, Vaughn 0-1 0-0 0, O’Bryant 1-6 0-0 2, Ennis 1-3 0-0 2, Inglis 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 45-89 13-21 109.

BROOKLYN (100) Bogdanovic 4-9 2-4 13, Young 8-15 0-0 17, Lopez 8-12 4-4 20, Sloan 3-6 0-0 7, Brown 2-7 0-0 5, Karasev 2-3 2-2 8, Kilpatrick 8-13 0-0 19, Larkin 2-2 0-0 4, Robinson 1-2 1-1 3, McCullough 1-1 1-2 4, Reed 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 39-70 10-13 100.

Milwaukee 27 23 28 31 — 109 Brooklyn 25 26 28 21 — 100 3-Point Goals-Milwaukee 6-14 (Middleton 3-5, Bayless 3-7, Ennis 0-1, Parker 0-1), Brooklyn 12-27 (Kilpatrick 3-6, Bogdanovic 3-7, Karasev 2-3, McCullough 1-1, Young 1-2, Sloan 1-3, Brown 1-5). Fouled Out-None.

Rebounds-Milwaukee 49 (Antetokounmpo 11), Brooklyn 37 (Young 10). Assists-Milwaukee 27 (Antetokounmpo 14), Brooklyn 25 (Bogdanovic 7). Total Fouls-Milwaukee 12, Brooklyn 18.

Technicals-Milwaukee defensive three second 2. A-15,241 (17,732).

Knicks 90, Lakers 87 Los Angeles — Jose Calderon hit a three-pointer with two-tenths of a second left to send New York past Los Angeles.

Carmelo Anthony scored 12 of his 26 points in the fourth quarter for New York. He shot 10-for-20 and had 12 rebounds.

STANDINGS EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

W L Pct GB Toronto 44 20 .688 — Boston 39 27 .591 6 New York 28 40 .412 18 Brooklyn 18 48 .273 27 Philadelphia 9 57 .136 36 Southeast Division

W L Pct GB Miami 38 28 .576 — Charlotte 37 28 .569 ½ Atlanta 38 29 .567 ½ Washington 30 35 .462 7½ Orlando 28 37 .431 9½ Central Division

W L Pct GB Cleveland 47 18 .723 — Indiana 35 31 .530 12½ Detroit 34 32 .515 13½ Chicago 32 32 .500 14½ Milwaukee 29 38 .433 19 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division

W L Pct GB y-San Antonio 56 10 .848 — Memphis 39 27 .591 17 Houston 33 33 .500 23 Dallas 33 33 .500 23 New Orleans 24 41 .369 31½ Northwest Division

W L Pct GB Oklahoma City 44 22 .667 — Portland 35 32 .522 9½ Utah 31 35 .470 13 Denver 28 38 .424 16 Minnesota 21 45 .318 23 Pacific Division

W L Pct GB x-Golden State 59 6 .908 — L.A. Clippers 42 23 .646 17 Sacramento 25 40 .385 34 Phoenix 17 49 .258 42½ L.A. Lakers 14 53 .209 46 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Sunday’s Games Cleveland 114, L.A. Clippers 90 Utah 108, Sacramento 99 Atlanta 104, Indiana 75 Milwaukee 109, Brooklyn 100 New York 90, L.A. Lakers 87 Today’s Games Dallas at Charlotte, 6 p.m.

Chicago at Toronto, 6:30 p.m.

Denver at Miami, 6:30 p.m.

Memphis at Houston, 7 p.m.

Portland at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

Detroit at Washington, 7 p.m.

Minnesota at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

New Orleans at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.

Cleveland at Utah, 9:30 p.m.

Kobe Bryant had 14 points in his 29th and final head-to-head matchup in the regular season with Anthony.

The anticipated rematch between lottery picks Kristaps Porzingis and D’Angelo Russell never materialized. Porzingis, the Knicks’ 7-foot-3 forward and fourth overall pick, was felled by a stomach virus and returned to the team’s hotel.

NEW YORK (90) Anthony 10-20 4-4 26, D.Williams 3-10 2-6 8, Lopez 6-7 4-5 16, Calderon 4-7 0-0 9, Vujacic 1-8 2-2 5, Afflalo 3-9 3-4 9, Grant 2-6 2-2 6, Galloway 3-5 2-4 9, O’Quinn 1-3 0-0 2. Totals 33-75 19-27 90.

L.A. LAKERS (87) Bryant 5-15 3-4 14, Randle 2-7 3-4 7, Hibbert 3-4 1-1 7, Russell 1-7 1-2 4, Clarkson 6-16 0-0 12, Huertas 3-7 3-4 9, L.Williams 7-12 0-0 15, Bass 4-6 3-3 11, Nance Jr. 2-5 0-1 4, World Peace 1-5 2-2 4, Kelly 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 34-85 16-21 87.

New York 18 28 19 25 — 90 L.A. Lakers 11 24 25 27 — 87 3-Point Goals-New York 5-21 (Anthony 2-4, Calderon 1-3, Galloway 1-3, Vujacic 1-7, Grant 0-1, D.Williams 0-1, Afflalo 0-2), L.A. Lakers 3-16 (Russell 1-2, L.Williams 1-3, Bryant 1-4, Kelly 0-1, Huertas 0-1, World Peace 0-2, Clarkson 0-3). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-New York 55 (Anthony 12), L.A. Lakers 51 (Randle 8).

Assists-New York 19 (Calderon 6), L.A. Lakers 14 (L.Williams 5). Total Fouls-New York 16, L.A. Lakers 20. Technicals-New York defensive three second. A-18,997 (18,997).

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1960 — Rookie Wilt Chamberlain scores a playoff-record 53 points in the Philadelphia’s 132-112 triumph over the Syracuse Nationals to send the Warriors to the Eastern Division finals against Boston.

1963 — Guy Rodgers of the San Francisco Warriors hands out 28 assists in a 114-109 loss to the St. Louis Hawks, tying an NBA record set by Bob Cousy of Boston in 1959.

1965 — Bill Russell of Boston scores 20 points and grabs 41 rebounds, and the Celtics set an NBA record with their 61st victory of the season, a 106-98 triumph over San Francisco.

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Gordon HR lifts K.C. Surprise, Ariz. (ap) — Alex Gordon hit his second spring homer and Edinson Volquez struck out six in four innings, but the Kansas City Royals lost 9-4 to a Cleveland Indians split-squad on Sunday.

Gordon connected against right-hander Mike Clevinger, a touted prospect who has never pitched above Double-A. The drive came on Clevinger’s first pitch of the first inning.

“It’s definitely nerveracking,” Clevinger said of facing the defending World Series champions.

“You know who it is. You try to be the same guy, but I think that it probably got me a little bit amped.

He (Gordon) ambushed a fastball I left up.”

Volquez allowed three runs and five hits, including a two-run drive to Giovanny Urshela, who leads the Indians with three homers and nine RBIs. Cleveland’s Trevor Bauer allowed one run and two hits over four relief innings.

“He threw the ball well, no doubt he did,” Indians bench coach Brad Mills said. “He was able to mix his pitches, threw a lot of sliders and cutters today that he had real good

Starting time Indians: Clevinger, Cleveland Kansas City who logged a 2.73 ERA

ab r h bi ab r h bi Jo.Ramirez 2b 4 0 1 0 A.Escobar ss 3 0 0 0 in 2015 with Double-A T.Krieger 2b 2 0 0 0 Calixte ss 1 0 1 1 Akron, allowed three Naquin cf 4 1 2 0 A.Gordon lf 3 1 1 1 Zimmer cf 2 0 1 1 J.Bonifacio lf 2 0 0 0 runs, one earned, and five Chisenhall rf 4 0 0 0 Hosmer 1b 2 0 0 1 Frazier rf 2 0 0 0 B.Fnmyor 1b 2 0 0 0 hits in two-plus innings.

C.Santana 1b 3 1 2 0 K.Morles dh 3 0 0 0 He struck out three and B.Bradley 1b 0 0 0 0 B.Eibner dh 1 0 0 0 Aguilar dh 5 1 2 2 S.Perez c 3 0 2 0 walked two.

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Hochevar 1 1 0 0 0 1 “The curve was good and Flynn L,1-1 1 6 5 5 0 1 Ohlendorf 1 0 0 0 1 2 my changeup was betM.Almonte 1 3 1 1 1 1 WP-M.Almonte. ter than my curve. FastUmpires-Home, Sean Barber; First, Chris ball command was really Guccione; Second, Tripp Gibson; Third, Pat Hoberg.

T-3:00. A-8,715 (10,714). good. I walked two guys but still felt good. It’s all about getting ready for command of and he was the start of the season.

I’m real close.” throwing 96-97.”

Roberto Perez hit a three-run homer off rook- All in the family Luke Wakamatsu, a ie left-hander Brian Flynn shortstop in the Indians’ five-run 19-year-old seventh. He also tripled prospect with the Indias the Indians collected a ans, entered in the seventh inning and groundspring-high 17 hits.

“I’ve been working on a ed out to first in his only lot of things in spring train- at-bat. His father, Don, is ing and I finally I put it to- the bench coach for the Royals. gether today,” Perez said.

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KANSAS UNIVERSITY FORWARD LANDEN LUCAS, LEFT, WALKS A LONG HALLWAY toward the team locker room alongside several team managers shortly before a news conference following the NCAA Tournament Selection Show on Sunday.

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nine games of the season, while serving a suspension for committing NCAA violations, but Castiglione said that didn’t much factor into bringing Syracuse in.

Castiglione said the last bubble team to make it was Tulsa, which plays Michigan on Wednesday.

Other notables from the bracket: Kentucky: Two things stood out about the Wildcats. First, their possible second-round matchup against border rival Indiana, a team they don’t schedule in the regular season. Second, their No. 4 seeding, one spot worse than Texas A&M, the team the Wildcats beat in the SEC tournament title game. Coach John Calipari was outspoken: “Did we not play a basketball game against them today?” Calipari said. “When you mis-seed a team, it’s not that team you hurt, it’s the teams they play that you hurt.

But at the end of the day, they’re not stealing my joy.”

Kansas: If there’s a favorite in this year’s tournament, it’s the Jayhawks, who won both the regular-season and tournament titles in the nation’s toughest conference, and also come in on a 14-game winning streak.

“You obviously have to be healthy, catch a few breaks and have your best players perform,” said Jayhawks coach Bill Self. “With most teams, it comes down to making shots. That’s as big a key with us as any.”

Future pros: The mock drafts project Ivan Rabb and Jaylen Brown as potential top-10 picks later this year. Both play for Cal. So, did the fourthseeded Bears underachieve by going 23-10 and finishing tied for third in the Pac-12? We’ll find out starting Friday when they open against No. 13 Hawaii. Other tournament players who could soon be starring on an NBA team near you: Brandon Ingram (Duke), Kris Dunn (Providence) and shooting guard Bud-

dy Hield (Oklahoma), the nation’s second-leading scorer at 25 points a game.

UConn, UCan?: When UConn won the title two years ago, the Huskies were a bubble team that caught fire at the right time. Sound familiar?

Courtesy of the 70-foot miracle shot by Jalen Adams that pushed the conference semifinal against Cincinnati into a fourth overtime, the Huskies didn’t have to sweat Selection Sunday. They’re champions of the American Athletic Conference, a No. 9 seed (they were a No. 7 in 2014) and will open against Colorado, with a possible meeting against Kansas up next.

Welcome back: Oregon State is back in the tournament for the first time since 1990. Last time the Beavers made it, Gary Payton was closing out a college career, about to be an NBA star. This time, it’s Payton’s son, Gary Payton II, leading the team into the spotlight. Payton II is averaging nearly 16 points a game for Oregon State, a No. 7 seed that faces No. 10 VCU on Friday.

Field filled with great matchups this rivalry will be fun to watch if they do.

Kentucky vs. Indiana, East Region. Another have-to-get-there-first game, but, wow, would that be fun to watch.

Utah’s Jakob Poeltl vs.

Gonzaga’s Domantas Sabonis, Midwest Region.

Also a potential secondround game, but we can’t help looking forward to two of the game’s best big men facing off in Denver.

Top players Buddy Hield, Oklahoma. National player of the year front-runner, seems to get better at the biggest moments.

Poeltl, Utah. So long, so athletic, so tough to defend.

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That made for a lot of agonizing as teams waited to see where and when John Young/Journal-World Photo they were going to play KANSAS UNIVERSITY’S ANDIE FORMBY DELIVERS during the Jayhawks’ 5-0 victory over — or if they were in at all.

Nebraska-Omaha on Sunday at Arrocha Ballpark at Rock Chalk Park.

The delay was worth it.

After a regular seaRychagova won at No. 1 son filled with parity student-athlete to coach, Formby pitches and it’s fun to watch her.” singles, Koch at No. 3 and and great performances, KU past UNO this year’s NCAA TourDaniella Chavez paced Cardona at No. 6.

Sophomore right-hander KU (15-9) offensively, goThe Jayhawks also nament is shaping up Andie Formby threw to be one to remember, ing 1-for-3 with a home run took the doubles point, her third complete-game with Cardona teaming filled with great matchand three RBIs. Shannon shutout of the season and with Summer Collins ups and quite a few surMcGinley was 3-for-4 ran her scoreless streak to with a run, and Jessie for a victory at No. 2, and prises.

172⁄3 innings in Kansas Uni- Roane was 2-for-3 as the Smith Hinton teaming Now that the bracket’s versity 5-0 softball victory Jayhawks rapped 10 hits with Rychagova for a win finally out, here’s a few over Nebraska-Omaha on at No. 3. things to look for as the against Omaha (10-15).

Sunday at Arrocha Ballpark The victory was the third college basketball season Kansas will play at Rock Chalk Park. straight for the Jayhawks hurtles toward the Final Wednesday at Creighton.

Formby (7-1) allowed (11-2). KU is off to its best Four in Houston: Omaha 000 000 0 — 0 2 0 just two hits, with a walk Kansas 003 020 x — 5 10 1 record to start since beginW —Andie Formby, 7-1. L — Abbie Clanton, 4-6.

Top matchups and seven strikeouts over ning 17-2 in 1998.

2B — Shannon McGinley, KU. HR —Daniella Iowa State vs. Iona, the full seven innings.

“Today was a tough Chavez, KU. Kansas highlights — Formby 7 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 1 BB, Midwest Region. Put the “Andie looked really battle against a very 7 K; Chavez 1-for-3, R, 3 RBIs; McGinley 3-for-4, R; over/under around 180 good today and has looked Jessie Roane 2-for-3. talented team,” KU coach on this one. great for the last few Todd Chapman said.

Colorado vs. UConn, weekends. Well, let’s be “This weekend (wins over South Region. The Hushonest, she’s been great all Kansas tennis Tulane and Houston) was season,” KU coach Megan something we can build on kies are one of the natops Houston tion’s hottest teams, the Smith said. “Andie is by and learn from. We look Houston — Anastasiya forward to getting home Buffaloes are long, athfar the hardest worker on letic and rebounding mathe team. She cares about Rychagova, Janet Koch and getting in a few days and Maria Jose Cardona chines. every rep that she takes a of practice in preparawon singles matches, and Texas vs. Texas A&M, practice. She puts a lot of tion for our match against Kansas University’s womWest Region. They need time, thought and energy Texas on Friday.” en’s tennis team defeated to win a game before getin everything that she The Jayhawks will host ting there, but rekindling does. She’s an unbelievable Houston, 4-2, on Sunday.

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KENTUCKY PLAYERS TAKE A SELFIE as they celebrate their 82-77 overtime victory over Texas A&M on Sunday in Nashville, Tenn.

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No. 16 Kentucky 82, No. 17 Tex. A&M 77, OT Nashville, Tenn. — For the Kentucky Wildcats, every Southeastern Conference Tournament title is special.

No matter how many the program already has.

Derek Willis’ threepointer with 1:01 left in overtime put Kentucky ahead to stay, and the Wildcats beat Texas A&M in overtime on Sunday for their second straight SEC Tournament championship and 29th overall.

“It’s a great feeling getting this win,” Kentucky sophomore guard Tyler Ulis said.

Kentucky freshman Jamal Murray summed it up: “Whoo! It’s a good feeling.”

These teams split the regular season title after the Aggies edged Kentucky in College Station in overtime on Feb. 20 and each finished 13-5 in league play. But SEC Tournament titles are treasured by Kentucky faithful, and the Wildcats (26-8) gave fans yet another to celebrate in a game they have lost only 10 times in the program’s storied history.

“That’s why we finished co-champions of the SEC, two really good teams battling it out,” A&M’s Alex Caruso said.

“I mean there’s just a testament to how good each of these teams are and how well coached they are.”

Ulis played all 45 minutes and scored a careerhigh 30 points, including Kentucky’s final point on a free throw with 8.7 seconds left. Murray added 17 points, and Willis, Alex Poythress and Isaiah Briscoe all finished with 10.

Danuel House scored a career-high 32 points for Texas A&M (26-8). Jalen Jones had 15 points, and Caruso added 11.

Texas A&M hadn’t played for a tournament title since 1994 or won one since 1987. The Aggies’ drought continues after they found themselves playing essentially a road game before an arena smothered in Kentucky blue with fans roaring every basket by the Wildcats.

“We’re disappointed, but we don’t have time to hang our heads or be disrupted in the journey we’re trying to accomplish,” Texas A&M coach Billy Kennedy said with the NCAA Tournament next.

In a game featuring 10 ties and eight lead changes, Kentucky had the biggest lead at seven points with 3:59 left on a threepointer by Murray and

were up 71-65 on two free throws by Poythress with 1:43 left in regulation.

House forced overtime with the performance of his career, even though he was bent over late with his hands on his knees. He hit a threepointer, then tied it at 71 with a driving layup with 18.7 seconds left. Guarded

by Caruso, Ulis’ fallaway jumper hit off the front rim to force the teams to keep playing.

KENTUCKY (26-8) Labissiere 1-2 0-0 2, Ulis 10-17 7-8 30, Briscoe 5-8 0-1 10, Poythress 3-6 3-5 10, Murray 5-14 4-5 17, Lee 1-1 0-0 2, Matthews 0-0 1-3 1, Humphries 0-3 0-0 0, Hawkins 0-0 0-0 0, Willis 3-7 1-2 10.

Totals 28-58 16-24 82.

TEXAS A&M (26-8) A. Collins 0-4 0-0 0, Jones 6-16 2-3 15, Caruso 5-9 0-0 11, House 10-23 8-11 32, Davis 2-5 4-6 8, Hogg 1-1 0-0 2, Gilder 1-1 0-0 2, Trocha-Morelos 3-7 1-2 7, Miller 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 28-66 15-22 77.

Halftime-Texas A&M 38-34. End Of Regulation-Tied 71. 3-Point GoalsKentucky 10-24 (Ulis 3-5, Willis 3-7, Murray 3-10, Poythress 1-2), Texas A&M 6-23 (House 4-13, Caruso 1-3, Jones 1-4, A. Collins 0-1, TrochaMorelos 0-2). Fouled Out-Poythress.

Rebounds-Kentucky 35 (Poythress 6), Texas A&M 41 (Davis, Jones 9).

Assists-Kentucky 13 (Briscoe 6), Texas A&M 11 (Caruso 6). Total FoulsKentucky 18, Texas A&M 20. A-19,613.

No. 2 Michigan St. 66, No. 13 Purdue 62 Indianapolis — Denzel Valentine finished with 15 points, 10 rebounds and nine assists to lead Michigan State past Purdue in the Big Ten Tournament championship game.

He was named the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player after flirting with triple-doubles on three consecutive days.

Michigan State (29-5) has won 13 of 14 and has its fifth tourney title, giving them an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

Purdue (26-8) was led

by Vince Edwards with 19 points while A.J. Hammons and Caleb Swanigan had 11 each.

Michigan State took control with two 9-0 runs late in the first half and extended the margin to as much as 46-33 early in the second.

The Boilermakers charged back and got as close as 62-61 with 2:50 left when Rapheal Davis made two free throws.

But Valentine made a 16-footer with 1:45 left and the Spartans didn’t give up another basket.

PURDUE (26-8) Hill 2-3 2-2 7, Thompson 1-2 0-0 3, Edwards 6-18 7-8 19, Cline 0-0 0-0 0, Hammons 4-10 3-4 11, Mathias 1-2 0-0 3, Davis 1-5 2-3 4, Haas 2-4 0-0 4, Swanigan 4-11 3-4 11. Totals 21-55 17-21 62.

MICHIGAN ST. (29-5) Bess 0-1 0-0 0, Ellis III 2-3 0-0 5, Forbes 2-8 4-4 9, Costello 4-8 0-1 8, Nairn Jr. 1-3 0-0 2, Harris 2-8 2-2 7, Clark Jr. 1-4 0-0 3, McQuaid 1-1 0-0 3, Davis 3-4 0-0 6, Schilling 1-5 2-2 4, Wollenman 2-2 0-0 4, Valentine 6-13 0-0 15. Totals 25-60 8-9 66.

Halftime-Michigan St. 36-26.

3-Point Goals-Purdue 3-15 (Hill 1-1, Thompson 1-1, Mathias 1-2, Davis 0-2, Swanigan 0-3, Edwards 0-6), Michigan St. 8-21 (Valentine 3-6, McQuaid 1-1, Ellis III 1-1, Clark Jr. 1-3, Harris 1-3, Forbes 1-6, Costello 0-1). Fouled Out-Clark Jr.. ReboundsPurdue 31 (Hammons 9), Michigan St. 41 (Valentine 10). AssistsPurdue 10 (Davis 3), Michigan St. 15 (Valentine 9). Total Fouls-Purdue 14, Michigan St. 19. A-16,429.

First Four At UD Arena Dayton, Ohio Tuesday, March 15 Florida Gulf Coast (20-13) vs.

Fairleigh Dickinson (18-14), 5:40 p.m.

Vanderbilt (19-13) vs. Wichita State (24-8), 8:10 p.m.

Wednesday, March 16 Holy Cross (14-19) vs. Southern (2212), 5:40 p.m.

Michigan (22-12) vs. Tulsa (20-11), 8:10 p.m.

EAST REGIONAL Round of 64 Thursday, March 17 At PNC Arena Raleigh, N.C. North Carolina (28-6) vs. Florida Gulf Coast-Fairleigh Dickinson winner, 6:20 p.m.

Southern Cal (21-12) vs. Providence (23-10), 8:50 p.m.

At Wells Fargo Arena Des Moines, Iowa Indiana (25-7) vs. Chattanooga (295), 6:10 p.m.

Kentucky (26-8) vs. Stony Brook (266), 8:40 p.m.

Friday, March 18 At Barclays Center Brooklyn, N.Y. West Virginia (26-8) vs. Stephen F. Austin (27-5), 6:10 p.m.

Notre Dame (21-11) vs. MichiganTulsa winner, 8:40 p.m.

At Scottrade Center St. Louis Wisconsin (20-12) vs. Pittsburgh (2111), 5:50 p.m.

Xavier (27-5) vs. Weber State (26-8), 8:20 p.m.

Round of 32 Saturday, March 19 At PNC Arena Raleigh, N.C. North Carolina-Florida Gulf CoastFairleigh Dickinson winner vs.

Southern Cal-Providence winner At Wells Fargo Arena Des Moines, Iowa Kentucky-Stony Brook winner vs.

Indiana-Chattanooga winner Sunday, March 20 At Barclays Center Brooklyn, N.Y. West Virginia-Stephen F. Austin winner vs. Notre Dame-MichiganTulsa winner At Scottrade Center St. Louis Xavier-Weber State winner vs.

Wisconsin-Pittsburgh winner At Wells Fargo Center Philadelphia Regional Semifinals Friday, March 25 North Carolina-Florida Gulf CoastFairleigh Dickinson-Southern CalProvidence winner vs. Kentucky-Stony Brook-Indiana-Chattanooga winner Xavier-Weber State-WisconsinPittsburgh winner vs. West VirginiaStephen F. Austin-Notre DameMichigan-Tulsa winner Regional Championship Sunday, March 27 Semifinal winners SOUTH REGIONAL Round of 64 Thursday, March 17 At Dunkin’ Donuts Center Providence, R.I. Miami (25-7) vs. Buffalo (20-14), 5:50 p.m.

Arizona (25-8) vs. VanderbiltWichita State winner, 8:20 p.m.

At Wells Fargo Arena Des Moines, Iowa Colorado (22-11) vs. UConn (24-10), 12:30 p.m..

Kansas (30-4) vs. Austin Peay (1817), 3 p.m.

Friday, March 18 At Barclays Center Brooklyn, N.Y. Villanova (29-5) vs. UNC Asheville (22-11), 11:40 a.m.

Iowa (21-10) vs. Temple (21-11), 2:10 p.m.

At Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena Spokane, Wash.

California (23-10) vs. Hawaii (27-5), 1 p.m.

Maryland (25-8) vs. South Dakota State (26-7), 3:30 p.m.

Round of 32 Saturday, March 19 At Dunkin’ Donuts Center Providence, R.I. Miami-Buffalo winner vs. ArizonaVanderbilt-Wichita State winner At Wells Fargo Arena Des Moines, Iowa Kansas-Austin Peay winner vs.

Colorado-UConn winner Sunday, March 20 At Barclays Center Brooklyn, N.Y. Villanova-UNC Asheville winner vs.

Iowa-Temple winner At Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena Spokane, Wash.

California-Hawaii winner vs.

Maryland-South Dakota State winner At KFC YUM! Center Louisville, Ky. Regional Semifinals Thursday, March 24 Kansas-Austin Peay-ColoradoUConn winner vs. California-HawaiiMaryland-South Dakota State winner Villanova-UNC Asheville-IowaTemple winner vs. Miami-BuffaloArizona-Vanderbilt-Wichita State winner Regional Championship Saturday, March 26 Semifinal winners MIDWEST REGIONAL Round of 64 Thursday, March 17 At PNC Arena Raleigh, N.C. Texas Tech (19-12) vs. Butler (21-10), 11:40 a.m.

Virginia (26-7) vs. Hampton (21-10), 2:10 p.m.

At Pepsi Center Denver Iowa State (21-11) vs. Iona (22-10), 1 p.m.

Purdue (26-8) vs. UALR (29-4), 3:30 p.m.

Utah (26-8) vs. Fresno State (25-9), 6:27 p.m.

Seton Hall (25-8) vs. Gonzaga (26-7), 8:57 p.m.

Friday, March 18 At Scottrade Center St. Louis Dayton (25-7) vs. Syracuse (19-13), 11:15 a.m.

Michigan State (29-5) vs. Middle Tennessee (24-9), 1:45 p.m.

Round of 32 Saturday, March 19 At PNC Arena Raleigh, N.C. Virginia-Hampton winner vs. Texas Tech-Butler winner At Pepsi Center Denver Utah-Fresno State winner vs. Seton Hall-Gonzaga winner Iowa State-Iona winner vs. PurdueUALR winner Sunday, March 20 At Scottrade Center St. Louis Michigan State-Middle Tennessee winner vs. Dayton-Syracuse winner At The United Center Chicago Regional Semifinals Friday, March 25 Virginia-Hampton-Texas TechButler winner vs. Iowa State-IonaPurdue-UALR winner Michigan State-Middle TennesseeDayton-Syracuse winner vs. Utah-Fresno State-Seton Hall-Gonzaga winner

Regional Championship Sunday, March 27 Semifinal winners WEST REGIONAL Round of 64 Thursday, March 17 At Dunkin’ Donuts Center Providence, R.I. Duke (23-10) vs. UNC Wilmington (25-7), 11:15 a.m.

Baylor (22-11) vs. Yale (22-6), 1:45 p.m.

Friday, March 18 At Chesapeake Energy Arena Oklahoma City Oregon State (19-12) vs. VCU (24-10), 12:30 p.m.

Oklahoma (25-7) vs. Cal State Bakersfield (24-8), 3 p.m.

Texas A&M (26-8) vs. Green Bay (2312), 6:20 p.m.

Texas (20-12) vs. Northern Iowa (2212), 8:50 p.m.

At Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena Spokane, Wash.

Oregon (28-6) vs. Holy CrossSouthern winner, 6:27 p.m.

Saint Joseph’s (27-7) vs. Cincinnati (22-10), 8:57 p.m.

Round of 32 Saturday, March 19 At Dunkin’ Donuts Center Providence, R.I. Duke-UNC Wilmington winner vs.

Baylor-Yale winner Sunday, March 20 At Chesapeake Energy Arena Oklahoma City Oklahoma-Cal State Bakersfield winner vs. Oregon State-VCU winner Texas A&M-Green Bay winner vs.

Texas-Northern Iowa winner At Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena Spokane, Wash.

Oregon-Holy Cross-Southern winner vs. Saint Joseph’s-Cincinnati winner At The Honda Center Anaheim, Calif.

Regional Semifinals Thursday, March 24 Oregon-Holy Cross-Southern-Saint Joseph’s-Cincinnati winner vs. DukeUNC Wilmington-Baylor-Yale winner Oklahoma-Cal State BakersfieldOregon State-VCU winner vs. Texas A&M-Green Bay-Texas-Northern Iowa winner Regional Championship Saturday, March 26 Semifinal winners FINAL FOUR At NRG Stadium Houston National Semifinals Saturday, April 2 South champion vs. West champion East champion vs. Midwest champion National Championship Monday, April 4 Semifinal winners

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First Round Tuesday, March 15 High Point (21-10) at South Carolina (24-8), 6 p.m.

Davidson (20-12) at Florida State (19-13), 6 p.m.

Alabama (18-14) at Creighton (1814) 8 p.m.

Long Beach State (20-14) at Washington (18-14), 8 p.m.

Florida (19-14) at North Florida (2211), 8 p.m.

Texas Southern (18-14) at Valparaiso (26-6),8:15 p.m.

IPFW (24-9) at San Diego State (259), 9 p.m.

New Mexico State (23-10) at Saint Mary’s (Cal) (27-5), 10 p.m.

Wednesday, March 16 Akron (26-8) at Ohio State (20-13), 6 p.m.

Wagner (22-10) at St. Bonaventure (22-8), 6 p.m.

Belmont (20-11) at Georgia (19-13), 6 p.m.

Bucknell (17-13) at Monmouth (277), 6:30 p.m.

Hofstra (24-9) at George Washington (23-10), 7 p.m.

Princeton (22-6) at Virginia Tech (19-14), 7 p.m.

Houston (22-9) at Georgia Tech (1914), 8 p.m.

UAB (26-6) at BYU (23-10), 9 p.m.

College Basketball Inv.

First Round Tuesday, March 15 Morehead State (19-12) at Siena (2112), 6 p.m.

Wednesday, March 16 Western Carolina (16-17) at Vermont (21-13), 6 p.m.

Houston Baptist (17-16) at UNCGreensboro (14-18), 6 p.m.

Albany (NY) (24-8) at Ohio (21-11), 6 p.m.

Pepperdine (18-13) at Eastern Washington (17-15), 8:05 p.m.

Montana (21-11) at Nevada (19-13), 9 p.m.

Nebraska-Omaha (18-13) at Duquesne (16-16), TBA Idaho (21-12) at Seattle (14-16), TBA

College Women

Sunday at Houston KANSAS 4, HOUSTON 2 Doubles No. 1 — Despoina Vogasari-Rocio Martin, UH, def. Nina KhmelnitckaiaJanet Koch, 6-3.

No. 2 — Maria Jose CardonaSummer Collins, KU, def. Tina RupertAngela Lorenzo, 6-3.

No. 3 — Smith Hinton-Anastasiya Rychagova, KU, def. Mino MarkovicMarnie Stokes, 6-2.

Singles No. 1 — Anastasiya Rychagova, KU, def. Despoina Vogasari, 7-5, 7-5.

No. 2 — Mino Markovic, UH, def.

Smith Hinton, 7-5, 6-3.

No. 3 — Janet Koch, KU, def. Rocio Martin, 7-6, 6-2.

No. 4 — Tina Rupert, UH, def. Nina Khmelnitckaia, 6-4, 7-6 (4).

No. 5 — Summer Collins, KU, vs.

Angela Lorenzo, 6-4, 2-6, 1-1 unfinished.

No. 6 — Maria Jose Cardona, KU, def.

Marnie Stokes, 6-4, 6-2.

Sprint Cup Good Sam 500

Sunday At Phoenix International Raceway Avondale, Ariz.

Lap length: 1 mile (Start position in parentheses) 1. (18) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 313 laps, 140.4 rating, 45 points.

2. (2) Carl Edwards, Toyota, 313, 128.9, 40.

3. (3) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 313, 96.9, 38.

4. (1) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 313, 120.5, 38.

5. (26) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 313, 117.3, 37.

6. (4) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 313, 105.3, 35.

7. (6) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 313, 89.6, 34.

8. (17) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 313, 101, 33.

9. (15) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 313, 92.1, 32.

10. (12) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 313, 82.5, 31.

11. (5) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 313, 98.6, 30.

12. (7) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 313, 79.3, 29.

13. (14) Aric Almirola, Ford, 313, 83.3, 28.

14. (8) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 313, 91.3, 27.

15. (28) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 313, 74, 0.

16. (11) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 313, 70.2, 25.

17. (22) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 313, 65.4, 24.

18. (9) Joey Logano, Ford, 312, 93.6, 23.

19. (36) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 312, 60.3, 22.

20. (23) Matt DiBenedetto, Toyota, 312, 57.7, 21.

21. (13) Greg Biffle, Ford, 312, 59, 20.

22. (24) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 312, 70.4, 19.

23. (21) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 311, 54.8, 18.

24. (29) David Ragan, Toyota, 309, 49.5, 17.

25. (27) Landon Cassill, Ford, 308, 47.8, 16.

26. (33) Michael McDowell, Chevrolet, 308, 41.5, 15.

27. (30) Brian Scott, Ford, 308, 45.2, 14.

28. (31) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 308, 37.8, 13.

29. (19) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 307, 68.9, 12.

30. (32) Chris Buescher, Ford, 307, 37.2, 11.

31. (35) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 307, 35.3, 10.

32. (39) Joey Gase, Ford, 305, 29.2, 0.

33. (38) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, 303, 30.5, 8.

34. (37) Josh Wise, Chevrolet, 303, 28.3, 7.

35. (25) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 268, 43.6, 6.

36. (34) Cole Whitt, Chevrolet, overheating, 236, 33.7, 5.

37. (10) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, accident, 161, 54.8, 4.

38. (16) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, accident, 104, 45.8, 3.

39. (20) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, accident, 51, 37.2, 2.

Grand Prix of St. Petersburg

Sunday At St. Petersburg Street Circuit St. Petersburg, Fla. Lap length: 1.8 miles (Starting position in parentheses) 1. (3) Juan Pablo Montoya, DallaraChevrolet, 110, Running.

2. (1) Simon Pagenaud, DallaraChevrolet, 110, Running.

3. (5) Ryan Hunter-Reay, DallaraHonda, 110, Running.

4. (2) Helio Castroneves, DallaraChevrolet, 110, Running.

5. (17) Mikhail Aleshin, DallaraHonda, 110, Running.

6. (10) Takuma Sato, Dallara-Honda, 110, Running.

7. (4) Scott Dixon, Dallara-Chevrolet, 110, Running.

8. (12) Carlos Munoz, Dallara-Honda, 110, Running.

9. (19) Tony Kanaan, DallaraChevrolet, 110, Running.

10. (13) Charlie Kimball, DallaraChevrolet, 109, Contact.

11. (9) Jack Hawksworth, DallaraHonda, 109, Running.

12. (18) Alexander Rossi, DallaraHonda, 109, Running.

13. (20) Conor Daly, Dallara-Honda, 109, Running.

14. (21) Spencer Pigot, DallaraHonda, 109, Running.

15. (14) Marco Andretti, DallaraHonda, 109, Running.

16. (6) Graham Rahal, DallaraHonda, 109, Running.

17. (16) Max Chilton, DallaraChevrolet, 109, Running.

18. (22) Oriol Servia, DallaraChevrolet, 109, Running.

19. (8) James Hinchcliffe, DallaraHonda, 109, Running.

20. (15) Luca Filippi, Dallara-Honda, 108, Running.

21. (7) Sebastien Bourdais, DallaraChevrolet, 87, Contact.

22. (11) Josef Newgarden, DallaraChevrolet, 47, Electrical.

23. (23) Will Power, DallaraChevrolet, 0, Did Not Start.

Spring Training

AMERICAN LEAGUE

W L Pct Toronto 10 2 .833 Houston 9 3 .750 Texas 8 3 .727 Chicago 6 5 .545 Detroit 7 6 .538 Seattle 7 6 .538 Los Angeles 6 6 .500 Minnesota 6 6 .500 Oakland 5 5 .500 Tampa Bay 6 7 .462 Boston 5 7 .417 Cleveland 5 7 .417 Kansas City 5 9 .357 New York 3 8 .273 Baltimore 1 11 .083 NATIONAL LEAGUE

W L Pct Los Angeles 8 2 .800 Arizona 10 3 .769 Philadelphia 10 3 .769 Washington 8 3 .727 St. Louis 7 4 .636 Milwaukee 6 5 .545 Colorado 6 6 .500 New York 5 5 .500 Cincinnati 6 7 .462 Miami 5 6 .455 San Francisco 6 8 .429 Pittsburgh 4 8 .333 Chicago 3 9 .250 San Diego 3 9 .250 Atlanta 3 10 .231 NOTE: Split-squad games count in the standings; games against nonmajor league teams do not.

Sunday’s Games Minnesota 14, Baltimore 5 Tampa Bay (ss) 13, Boston 5 Washington 4, St. Louis 4, tie Philadelphia 3, N.Y. Yankees 0 Houston 7, Atlanta 6 N.Y. Mets 11, Miami 0 Pittsburgh 9, Detroit 5 Toronto 6, Tampa Bay (ss) 1 Arizona 11, Chicago White Sox 4 Oakland 3, Chicago Cubs 3, tie Cleveland (ss) 9, Kansas City 4 Milwaukee 5, Cleveland (ss) 4 Cincinnati 5, Seattle 3 L.A. Dodgers 6, Colorado 4 L.A. Angels 7, Texas 3 San Francisco 8, San Diego 1 Today’s Games Pittsburgh vs. Boston at Fort Myers, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Houston vs. Washington at Viera, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay vs. Atlanta at Kissimmee, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Minnesota vs. St. Louis at Jupiter, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets vs. Detroit at Lakeland, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Philadelphia vs. Baltimore at Sarasota, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Milwaukee vs. L.A. Dodgers at Glendale, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

San Diego vs. Chicago Cubs at Mesa, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox vs. Kansas City at Surprise, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Texas vs. Cleveland at Goodyear, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Colorado vs. Seattle (ss) at Peoria, Ariz., 3:10 p.m.

Cincinnati vs. L.A. Angels at Tempe, Ariz., 3:10 p.m.

Seattle (ss) vs. Arizona at Scottsdale, Ariz., 3:10 p.m.

San Francisco vs. Oakland at Mesa, Ariz., 9:05 p.m.

Valspar Championship

Sunday At Innisbrook Resort, Copperhead Course Palm Harbor, Fla. Purse: $6.1 million Yardage: 7,340; Par: 71 Final (x-won on first playoff hole; a-amateur) x-Charl Schwartzel (500), $1,098,000

71-70-69-67—277 Bill Haas (300), $658,800

71-67-67-72—277 Ryan Moore (190), $414,800

70-69-69-71—279 a-Lee McCoy, $0 74-71-66-69—280 Graham DeLaet (105), $268,400

72-66-68-75—281 Charles Howell III (105), $268,400

67-72-70-72—281 Scott Brown (83), $197,488

70-69-72-71—282 Louis Oosthuizen (83), $197,488

72-70-70-70—282 Patrick Reed (83), $197,488

71-70-68-73—282 Steve Stricker (83), $197,488

71-66-72-73—282 Daniel Berger (60), $130,714

70-68-73-72—283 Retief Goosen (60), $130,714

70-69-72-72—283 Matt Kuchar (60), $130,714

71-70-74-68—283 George McNeill (60), $130,714

74-66-73-70—283 Jason Gore (60), $130,714

72-72-67-72—283 Charley Hoffman (60), $130,714

69-72-67-75—283 Henrik Stenson (60), $130,714

71-70-70-72—283 Justin Leonard (52), $88,450

72-72-71-69—284 Jordan Spieth (52), $88,450

76-68-67-73—284 Brett Stegmaier (52), $88,450

71-72-73-68—284 Justin Thomas (52), $88,450

72-67-72-73—284 Jonas Blixt (44), $52,959

70-73-74-68—285 Luke Donald (44), $52,959

75-69-71-70—285 Jason Dufner (44), $52,959

72-71-72-70—285 John Huh (44), $52,959

71-71-69-74—285 Sung Kang (44), $52,959

72-68-72-73—285 Kevin Na (44), $52,959

74-68-72-71—285 Chez Reavie (44), $52,959

69-75-73-68—285 Sam Saunders (44), $52,959

74-71-68-72—285 Daniel Summerhays (44), $52,959

71-73-69-72—285 Danny Willett, $52,959

70-72-71-72—285 Greg Yates, $52,959 69-73-72-71—285 Padraig Harrington (37), $35,304

74-71-71-70—286 Hiroshi Iwata (37), $35,304

71-74-71-70—286 Jerry Kelly (37), $35,304

70-69-73-74—286 Patton Kizzire (37), $35,304

71-73-70-72—286 Tyler Aldridge (32), $28,731

70-72-72-73—287 Branden Grace (32), $28,731

72-72-70-73—287 Jamie Lovemark (32), $28,731

70-71-72-74—287 Will MacKenzie (32), $28,731

70-67-74-76—287 Steve Wheatcroft (32), $28,731

73-68-74-72—287 Blayne Barber (24), $19,309

71-72-75-70—288 Matt Every (24), $19,309

70-74-74-70—288 Chris Kirk (24), $19,309

72-72-75-69—288 Thomas Aiken (24), $19,309

75-69-71-73—288 Seung-Yul Noh (24), $19,309

71-71-75-71—288 Ryan Palmer (24), $19,309

71-74-71-72—288 Rory Sabbatini (24), $19,309

73-71-73-71—288 Cameron Smith (24), $19,309

70-71-73-74—288 Camilo Villegas (24), $19,309

72-73-70-73—288 Will Wilcox (24), $19,309

72-71-73-72—288 Gary Woodland (24), $19,309

73-72-71-72—288 Whee Kim (17), $14,396

72-71-72-74—289 Hunter Mahan (17), $14,396

73-72-71-73—289 Kyle Stanley (17), $14,396

73-69-77-70—289 Ken Duke (13), $13,725

67-73-76-74—290 Russell Knox (13), $13,725

75-69-70-76—290 Carlos Ortiz (13), $13,725

74-69-77-70—290 Shawn Stefani (13), $13,725

73-72-68-77—290

NHL

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Boston 70 39 23 8 86 213 188 Florida 68 38 21 9 85 192 167 Tampa Bay 69 40 24 5 85 190 163 Detroit 69 34 24 11 79 173 182 Ottawa 70 32 30 8 72 202 218 Montreal 69 32 31 6 70 187 194 Buffalo 70 28 33 9 65 167 190 Toronto 68 23 34 11 57 160 201 Metropolitan Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Washington 68 49 14 5 103 219 160 N.Y. Rangers 69 39 23 7 85 197 181 N.Y. Islanders 66 37 21 8 82 190 166 Pittsburgh 68 36 24 8 80 188 173 Philadelphia 67 32 23 12 76 174 180 Carolina 69 31 26 12 74 170 186 New Jersey 69 33 29 7 73 153 171 Columbus 69 28 33 8 64 180 215 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Dallas 70 41 20 9 91 227 203 St. Louis 70 41 20 9 91 183 172 Chicago 69 41 22 6 88 195 168 Nashville 69 34 22 13 81 189 177 Minnesota 69 32 27 10 74 182 172 Colorado 70 35 31 4 74 188 198 Winnipeg 68 28 35 5 61 176 203 Pacific Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Los Angeles 67 40 22 5 85 180 154 Anaheim 67 37 21 9 83 167 159 San Jose 68 38 24 6 82 203 179 Arizona 69 30 32 7 67 185 211 Vancouver 67 27 28 12 66 164 192 Calgary 68 28 35 5 61 182 213 Edmonton 71 27 37 7 61 169 209 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Sunday’s Games Pittsburgh 5, N.Y. Rangers 3 Tampa Bay 4, Columbus 0 Toronto 1, Detroit 0 Today’s Games Florida at N.Y. Islanders, 6 p.m.

Los Angeles at Chicago, 7 p.m.

St. Louis at Calgary, 8 p.m.

Nashville at Edmonton, 8 p.m.

Winnipeg at Vancouver, 9 p.m.

New Jersey at Anaheim, 9 p.m.

MLS

Sunday’s Games New York City FC 2, Toronto FC 2, tie San Jose 2, Portland 1

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MILLSAP & SINGER, LLC By: Chad R. Doornink, #23536 cdoornink@msfirm.com 8900 Indian Creek Parkway, Suite 180 Overland Park, KS 66210 (913) 339-9132 (913) 339-9045 (fax)

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By: /s/ Tiffany T. Frazier Tiffany T. Frazier, #26544 tfrazier@msfirm.com Garrett M. Gasper, #25628 ggasper@msfirm.com Aaron M. Schuckman, #22251 aschuckman@msfirm.com 612 Spirit Dr. St. Louis, MO 63005 (636) 537-0110 (636) 537-0067 (fax) ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF MS 173349.352389 KJFC _______

(First published in the Lawrence Daily Journal World March 14, 2016) AUCTIONED TO HIGHEST BIDDER IMPOUNDED VEHICLES & PERSONAL PROPERTY WILL BE AUCTIONED TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH ON OR AFTER MARCH 25, 2016 @ 10AM IF NOT CLAIMED AND ALL CHARGES PAID IN FULL. SOLD AS IS AT REDLINE TOW 19663 LINWOOD RD LINWOOD KS 66052.

YEAR/MAKE VIN # 2002 FORD/RANGER 1FTZR45E12PA54782 1993 CHEVY/BLAZER 1GNEK18K3PJ360435 2005 DODGE/ NEON 1B3ES26C45D241526 1989 PONTIAC/TRANS AM 1G2FW2186KL236070 ________

(First published in the bate and for the appointLawrence Daily Journal- ment of Arly H. Allen as Executor of the Will without World February 29, 2016) bond.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF You are further advised that the Petitioner in this DOUGLAS COUNTY, matter has requested adKANSAS ministration pursuant to PROBATE DIVISION the Kansas Simplified Estates Act, and if such reIn the Matter of the quest is granted the Court Estate of may not supervise adminCONSTANCE H. ALLEN, istration of the estate and deceased no further notice of any action of the Executor or Case No. 16 PR 29 other proceedings in the Division 1 administration will be Pursuant to K.S.A. given except for notice of Chapter 59 final settlement of the NOTICE OF HEARING AND decedent’s estate. Should NOTICE TO CREDITORS written objections to simplified administration be The State of Kansas To All filed with the Court, the Court may order superPersons Concerned: vised administration to enYou are hereby notified sue. that a Petition dated Feb- You are hereby required to ruary 23, 2016, has been file your written defenses filed in this Court by Arly to the admission of the H. Allen as an heir at law of decedent’s Will to probate Constance H. Allen, de- on or before: March 24, ceased, praying that the 2016 at 10:00 a.m. in this instrument attached to the Court in the City of LawPetition dated August 20, rence, in Douglas County, 2007, be admitted to pro- Kansas, at which time and

place the cause will be heard.

Should you fail therein, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the Petition.

All creditors are notified to exhibit their demands against the estate within four months from the date of the first publication of this notice as provided by law, and if their demands are not thus exhibited they shall be forever barred.

Arly H. Allen, Petitioner STEVENS & BRAND, LLP PO Box 189 Lawrence, KS 66044 (785) 843-0811 Attorneys for the Petitioner ________ (First published in the Lawrence Daily JournalWorld March 14, 2016) NOTICE TO BIDDERS Sealed proposals will be received by the City of Lawrence, Kansas, in the Office of the City Clerk, 6

East Sixth Street until 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, March 22nd, for the following: BID #B1615 - (2) Current Production ½ ton Pickups Copies of the Notice to Bidders and specifications may be obtained at the Finance Department at the above address.

vs.

MARVIN BUZZARD DEFENDANTS Case No. 2016-CV-000062 Div. No. K.S.A. 60 Mortgage Foreclosure NOTICE OF SUIT

The State of Kansas to: MARVIN BUZZARD A/K/A MARV BUZZARD A/K/A MARVIN WAYNE BUZZARD; JOHN DOE, (REAL NAME UNKNOWN); MARY DOE, City of Lawrence, Kansas (REAL NAME UNKNOWN); UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF Brandon McGuire MARVIN BUZZARD; Acting City Clerk RACHAEL BUZZARD; TRUS_______ TEE OF THE MARVIN W. (First published in the BUZZARD LIVING TRUST Lawrence Daily Journal- DATED APRIL 3, 2007 World February 29, 2016) and the unknown heirs, exadministrators, IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ecutors, devisees, trustees, crediDOUGLAS COUNTY, tors, and assigns of such KANSAS of the defendants as may be deceased; the unknown WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. spouses of the defendants; PLAINTIFF the unknown officers, sucThe City Commission reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to waive informalities.

cessors, trustees, creditors and assigns of such defendants as are existing, dissolved or dormant corporations; the unknown guardians and trustees of such of the defendants as are minors or are in anywise under legal disability; and all other persons who are or may be concerned: You are hereby notified that a petition has been filed in the District Court of Douglas County, Kansas,

by Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. for judgment in the sum of $256,410.26, plus interest, costs and other relief; judgment that plaintiff’s lien is a first lien on the said real property and sale of said property to satisfy the indebtedness, said property described as follows, to wit: LOT 13A IN REPLAT OF LOTS 12 13 AND 14 IN TWIN

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2008 Rockwood Signature Ultra Lite Trailer

Monday, Mar. 14, 7 pm Peace Menonite Church

Lawrence Schools, large CUSTOM home, barns, 2nd house on property, ponds, just west of 6th & SLTfastest growing intersection in Kansas. $1.6 M

Model RLT8272S

615 Lincoln Street

Guest speaker from the Lawrence Police Dept. address crime in North Lawrence. Residents can discuss how to help lower crime rates. Also, grocery store update!

Bill Fair & Company www.billfair.com

Used minimum times; been garaged since purchase.

Includes: hide-a-bed couch w/air mattress, awning, Alum wheels, AC, slide out dinette, LCD TV, microwave, equalizer sway control hitch, & many features.

All Welcome!

Info: 785-842-7232

Lost small gray long hair KITTY near 6th & Eldridge (Folks). If you see her please call 508-944-3067 or 508-215-7519.

785-221-2738/785-221-2445 mkstravel@netzero.com

Farms-Acreage 4 ACRES

Between Lawrence & Topeka on blacktop.

Old farmstead, repo, assume owner financing with NO down payment.

(785)554-9663

MERCHANDISE PETS TO PLACE AN AD:

AUCTIONS

785.832.2222

MERCHANDISE

Auction Calendar

Antiques

COIN AUCTION Saturday, March 19th 10am American Legion Post 14 3408 W. 6th Street Lawrence, KS 66049

Antiques & Vintage

524 Lots - Gold Coins & Huge Number of Silver Coins in All Denominations!

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See web full entire list: www.dandlauctions.com D & L AUCTIONS 785-766-5630  PUBLIC AUCTION  Sunday, Mar. 20th,9:30 AM Douglas Co. Fairgrounds 2110 Harper, Bldg 21 Lawrence, KS Advertising Signs & Memorabilia, Collectibles & Primitives Elston Auctions 785-594-0505 | 785-218-7851 www.kanasauctions.net/elston SHAWNEE MISSION SCHOOL DIST. AUCTION SAT., MARCH 19, 9:30AM Monticello Auction Center 4795 FRISBIE RD SHAWNEE, KS 66226 Vehicles, Band & Music Equip, Food Service Equip, Handicap Equip, Shop Equip., & Misc.

Furniture

2nd & Walnut Downtown Ottawa, KS Tues - Sat, 10 am - 5 pm 785-242-1078 <<<<

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Mitch has listed his building for sale but the mall is open until it sells.

His own large inventory (#R01) is all 40% off!

Some other dealers discounting also Vintage School Desk Solid wood, firm. Excellent condition. $45 785-424-4315

Music-Stereo

PIANOS 100 Year old ROCKER They don’t build them like this anymore!

In Excellent condition!

785-841-7635 $50 Please leave a message

Lawn, Garden & Nursery John Deere Lawn Mower D130, 42” cut, Only 277 hours used.

Excellent condition.

Asking $ 1200.00 Call 785-255-4579 NELSON Traveling Sprinkler Raintrain travels 200 ft.& 13,500 sq.ft. Like New .Perfect condition Original Box $40. 785-865-4215

Machinery-Tools Extension Ladder Davidson, 16ft-Aluminium, w/ 200lb load capacity.

Type III duty rating.

Asking $50. 785-842-2928

www.kansasauctions.net/elston

• H.L. Phillips upright $650 •Whitney Spinet - $500 • Cable Nelson - $500 • Gulbranson Spinet - $450 Prices include tuning & delivery

785-832-9906

PETS Pets BIRD FAIR

Saturday, March 19 Building 21 Douglas Co. Fairgrounds 2110 Harper Lawrence, KS Hours: 9:00AM - 3:00PM. $5 Admission.

Public is invited. Call 620-429-1872 for info.

AGRICULTURE Baby & Children Items Child’s wooden fort. $100, obo Call 913-845-3365

Apartments Unfurnished

Townhomes

Townhomes 3 BR w/2 or 2.5 BA W/D hookups, Fireplace, Major Appliances. Lawn Care & Dbl Car Garage!

Equal Housing Opportunity

All Electric

1, 2 & 3 BR units Some with W/D, Water & Trash Paid, Small Pet, Income Restrictions Apply

785-838-9559

Shop REAL Vintage Fashon!

Check local and regional Estate Sales listed HERE! Have a sale you need to advertise?

Call 785.832.2222 classifieds@ljworld.com

Farm Land HAY

GROUND Available Southwest of Vinland 785-838-9009

Plumbing

Fredy’s Tree Service cutdown • trimmed • topped • stump removal Licensed & Insured.

20 yrs experience.

913-441-8641 913-244-7718

KansasTreeCare.com Trimming, removal, & stump grinding by Lawrence locals Certified by Kansas Arborists Assoc. since 1997 “We specialize in preservation & restoration” Ins. & Lic. visit online 785-843-TREE (8733)

Lawrence

769 Grant Street in North Lawrence SUNRISE PLACE Now Leasing 2 BR’s Close to Campus & Downtown Pool, On KU Bus Route, Spacious Floorplan, Patios/Decks.

Great location: 837 Michigan CALL FOR SPECIALS!

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Lawrence

Loading dock, workshop, multi-use space.

Bob Bloom: 842-8204 Need to sell your car?

Place your ad at classifieds.lawrence.com or email classifieds@ljworld.com

Office Space

785-865-2505 grandmanagement.net FIRST MONTH FREE! 1 & 2 Bedroom Units Available Now! Cooperative townhomes start at $446-$490/month.

Water, trash, sewer paid.

Back patio, CA, hardwood floors, full basmnt., stove, refrigeratpr, w/d hookup, garbage disposal, reserved parking. On-site management & maintenance. 24 hr emergency maintenance.

Membership & Equity fee Required. 785-842-2545 (Equal Housing Opportunity) pinetreetownhouses.com

Call Lyndsey 913-422-7002

For LEASE Warehouse / Offices

1st Month FREE!

Equal Housing Opportunity.

785-865-2505

Interior/Exterior Painting Quality Work Over 30 yrs. exp.

classifieds@ljworld.com

New carpet, vinyl, cabinets, countertop.

W/D is included.

Downtown Office Space Single offices, elevator & conference room, $725.

Call Donna or Lisa

785-841-6565

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Tuckawayatbriarwood.com HARPER SQUARE Harpersquareapartments.com HUTTON FARMS Huttonfarms.com

785-841-3339

EXECUTIVE OFFICE AVAILABLE at WEST LAWRENCE LOCATION $525/mo., Utilities included Conference Room, Fax Machine, Copier Available Contact Donna

785-841-6565

Advanco@sunflower.com

REAL ESTATE SPECIAL!

LAUREL GLEN APTS

EOH

Preview 8 AM, on auction day More info & pictures online: LINDSAYAUCTIONS.COM TOY AUCTION Saturday, Mar. 26, 9:30 am American Legion, Lawrence 3408 W. 6th St ******** Vintage Pedal Vehicles & Construction Toys, 150+ Farm Toys, 30+ Shotguns /Rifles /Revolvers/ Pistols, Collectibles & Misc.

OUTSTANDING QUALITY! Elston Auctions 785-594-0505|785-218-7851

Medical Equipment Hospital Bed w/ 2 side rails. 3 way adjustable electric twin w/ mattress.

Asking $ 375.00 Call Janet 785-865-5770

Open 9am-5pm daily 785-597-5752

OTTAWA ANTIQUE MALL

RENTALS

classifieds@ljworld.com

203 W. 7th St Perry, KS

Storewide sale, save up to 50% on all Furniture, Primitives, Man Cave Items.

Large inventory to choose from. Don’t miss this sale!!

Prices good Sat-Sun ONLY!

Duplexes

800-887-6929

$17,000.00

Need to sell your car?

Place your ad at classifieds.lawrence.com

Lawrence Investment / Development

Campers

Improvement Association

785.832.2222

2BR in a 4-plex

Spring help around your home ?

Call Father and Sons 785-550-2399

Special Notices

REAL ESTATE

Family Tradition Interior & Exterior Painting Carpentry/Wood Rot Senior Citizen Discount Ask for Ray 785-330-3459

Tree/Stump Removal

NOTICES 785.832.2222

Painting

RETIRED MASTER PLUMBER & Handyman needs small work.

Bill Morgan 816-523-5703

Landscaping YARDBIRDS LANDSCAPING Tractor and Mowing Services.

Yard to fields.

Lifetime of Experience Call 785-766-1280

Thicker line?

Bolder heading?

Color background?

New York Housekeeping Accepting clients for weekly, bi-weekly, seasonal or special occasion cleaning.

Excellent References.

Beth - 785-766-6762

Handyman Services Located in Lawrence Family business with the lowest prices & guarantee service. Did you see a great idea on Pinterest?

I can make it! Anything from hanging a picture to building decks or pergolas.

Interior upgrades, restoration, maintenance.

Email or call fcano100@gmail.com Phone: 917-921-6994 Anytime & Any Day! Free estimates!

Auctioneers

Lawn, Garden & Nursery

Retired Carpenter, Deck Repairs, Home Repairs, Interior Wall Repair & House Painting, Doors, Wood Rot, Power wash 785-766-5285

Full Remodels & Odd Jobs, Interior/Exterior Painting, Installation & Repair of:

Fully Insured 22 yrs. experience

800-887-6929 www.billfair.com

Home Improvements

2BR, 2 bath, fireplace, CA, W/D hookups, 2 car with opener. Easy access to I-70. Includes paid cable.

Pet under 20 lbs. allowed Call 785-842-2575 www.princeton-place.com

10 LINES & PHOTO: 2 DAYS $50

7 DAYS $80 28 DAYS $280

CALL 832-2222

PUBLIC NOTICES PUBLIC NOTICE CONTINUED FROM 7C RIDGE HEIGHTS EAST SUBDIVISION IN DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS Commonly known as 862 N 1884th Road, Lecompton, Kansas 66050

PROBATE DIVISION In the Matter of the Estate of LEE S DOUGLASS, deceased Case No. 2016- PR-000028 Division 1 Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 59

NOTICE OF HEARING AND and you are hereby reNOTICE TO CREDITORS quired to plead to said petition in said Court at Law- The State of Kansas To All rence, Kansas on or before Persons Concerned: the 10th day of April, 2016.

You are hereby notified that a Petition dated Should you fail therein March 8, 2016, a Petition judgment and decree will for Probate of Will and Isbe entered in due course suance of Letters Testaupon said petition. mentary was filed in this Court by Sarah A Albright, THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO heir, devisee, legatee, and COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY executrix named in the INFORMATION OBTAINED Last Will and Testament of WILL BE USED FOR THAT Lee S Douglass deceased; PURPOSE. Letters Testamentary under the Kansas Simplified SHAPIRO & KREISMAN, LLC Estates Act be issued to Attorneys for Plaintiff the Executor to serve with4220 Shawnee Mission out bond; and the deceParkway - Suite 418B dent was a single person Fairway, KS 66205 at the time of his death.

(913)831-3000 Fax No. (913)831-3320 You are further advised Our File No. 16-008852/kp under the provisions of the _______ Kansas Simplified Estates

cedent’s estate.

Should written objections to simplified administration be filed with the court, the Court may order that supervised administration ensue.

US Hwy 24, Topeka, Kansas 66608, intends to file an application with the State Bank Commissioner for permission to establish a branch to be known as Silver Lake Bank - Lawrence, and to be located at 643 You are required to file Massachusetts, Suite D, your written defenses Lawrence, Kansas 66044. thereto on or before March 24, 2016, at 10:30 o’clock The State Bank Commisa.m. in the District Court, sioner considers a number Lawrence, Douglas County, of factors in deciding Kansas, at which time and whether to approve the place the cause will be application.

Any person heard. Should you fail wishing to comment on therein, judgment and de- this application may file cree will be entered in due his or her comments, in course upon the petition. writing, with the State All creditors of the above Bank Commissioner, at 700 named decedent are noti- SW Jackson Street, Suite fied to exhibit their de- 300, Topeka, Kansas 66603. mands against the estate Comments will be considwithin four months from ered if received on or bethe date of first publica- fore March 31, 2016. tion of this notice, as provided by law, and if their Public comments may be demands are not thus ex- subject to disclosure purhibited, they shall be for- suant to the Kansas Open ever barred.

Records Act; K. S. A. 45-201 et seq.

Sarah A Albright, Petitioner For information about submitting a request for rec11350 Estates View Lane Manassas VA 20112 ords, please refer to: 817-366-0421 sarahalbright62@gmail.com http://www.osbckansas.org ________ /consumers/openrecords.ht ml (First published in the ________ Lawrence Daily Journal World March 14, 2016)

Act, the Court need not su(First published in the pervise administration of Lawrence Daily Journal the Estate, and no notice World March 14, 2016) of any action of the Executor or other proceedings in IN THE DISTRICT the administration will be COURT OF NEW BRANCH LOCATION given, except for notice of DOUGLAS COUNTY, final settlement of the deKANSAS Silver Lake Bank, 201 NW